On Mon, Feb 19, 2007 at 10:34:25AM -0800, Chris Mullins wrote: > If you're talking "Managed C++" you could include the SoapBox Studio in > your list. > > This is a very complete .Net XMPP SDK for doing just about everything in > XMPP land. > > At this point in time, there's really not any good reason to do C++ > development in the Windows world. Microsoft has deployed .Net 2.0 very > well, and the increased development productivity mean you should really > be using .Net. > > (Why anyone these days would develop in C or C++, regardless of > environment, is something I really don't understand. The modern > languages [.Net, Java, Ruby, Python, etc] are just so much better).
I do not want to start any flame (if you feel I do, please ignore this)
- but as an explanation why - many "new" languages lack the actual
control of what really is happening. Java, for example tells more you
what you should do, while I think it should be the other way around ;-).
C++ has many traps where a mammoth would fit in, but it just won't argue
with you that you really have to catch that exception. I tried Java and
found it slowing me down…
Besides, .NET is many things, but not a language.
Just a short example: beat this in Java ;-)
main() { printf("Hello world\n");
That is correct C (well, at last K&R standard, the new ones would not
agree).
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Michal 'vorner' Vaner
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