Yes but I have used Turbo C++. I currently write C code in PalmOS, but I'm
evaluating migration to C++.
----- Original Message -----
From: Stanley Kirilov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, September 23, 1999 1:41 PM
Subject: RE: C++ SDK wanted!
> Have you ever written at least one class in C++?
>
> Stanley
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Martin Krohn [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Thursday, September 23, 1999 9:48 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: C++ SDK wanted!
>
> Benefits of C++:
> Imagine you can write this:
>
> #include <StringLibrary.hpp>
>
> static String doSomething()
> {
> String mystring, aux, final;
> int i;
> aux = "Testing ";
> mystring = " string classes";
> final = aux + mystring;
> return final;
> }
>
> This is posible by writing a String class and overloading the "+"
operator.
> Benefits are obvious.
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: John Fullerton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Wednesday, September 22, 1999 2:13 PM
> Subject: Re: C++ SDK wanted!
>
>
> > I think that it could be neat to talk about the C++ options more.
> >
> > For those advocating C++, as was requested, please say more about C++
> benefits.
> >
> > My perception, without having USED C++, though having studied it, is
that
> it has a lineage back to Simula and benefits from considerable reasoning
> about how people think and how to represent the functionality of computer
> programs in programming languages. For example, the "class" is a
definition
> of an object. The object could be either very much like a real-world
object
> (in the sense of having same-name attributed and representative
> functioning). For example, there could be a car object with methods like
> accelerate(), signal(), and so on. Or there could be objects not so much
> like a real-world object. For example, maybe window or button.
> >
> > That much is my proposed comment.
> >
> > Is the benefit of a class versus adding a "reusable file" that the class
> gets used in the code only as much as its particular functions (or
methods)
> get called? Or is it that it is easier to remember what is in a class than
> what is in a file? Or could the utility of a class go beyond one file to
> include all that is needed for the functionality (though it has to be
> defined within the set of classes)?
> >
> > Have a nice day
> > John Paul Fullerton
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >
> >
> >
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