Re: [CentOS] gcc editor for newbie (Emacs or vim or ?) [Going OT]
On Mon, 2008-08-11 at 11:04 -0500, Lanny Marcus wrote: snip Vi or vim. I think Emacs would just cloud my mind, when I'm trying to absorb C++Lanny If you have C experience, it'll be quick once you get your head around constructors, destructors, inheritance, templates (I never did enough of that to get it), et al. It essentially implements a bunch of things we used to do as functions, libraries or modules when we recognized a strong re-usability potential, and formalizes all that to the object oriented model. Good luck on it and I know you'll enjoy it once you see results. snip sig stuff -- Bill ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] gcc editor for newbie (Emacs or vim or ?) [Going OT]
On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 11:38 AM, William L. Maltby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 2008-08-11 at 11:04 -0500, Lanny Marcus wrote: snip Vi or vim. I think Emacs would just cloud my mind, when I'm trying to absorb C++Lanny If you have C experience, it'll be quick once you get your head around constructors, destructors, inheritance, templates (I never did enough of that to get it), et al. It essentially implements a bunch of things we used to do as functions, libraries or modules when we recognized a strong re-usability potential, and formalizes all that to the object oriented model. Good luck on it and I know you'll enjoy it once you see results. Thanks! Not much C experience. I'm an old Assembly Language guy. Trying to enter the 21st century now. C++ is a lot to learn and it looks like a lot of it has to do with the way things are done in OOP. The book is very long (878 pages) but well regarded. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] gcc editor for newbie (Emacs or vim or ?) [Going OT]
On Mon, 2008-08-11 at 12:38 -0500, Lanny Marcus wrote: On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 11:38 AM, William L. Maltby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 2008-08-11 at 11:04 -0500, Lanny Marcus wrote: snip Vi or vim. I think Emacs would just cloud my mind, when I'm trying to absorb C++Lanny snip Thanks! Not much C experience. I'm an old Assembly Language guy. Trying to Ditto - IBM 360/370. Some things never leave. BALR 14, save area trace register 13, etc. I still love assembly. Speed and efficiency were my big thing. enter the 21st century now. C++ is a lot to learn and it looks like a lot of it has to do with the way things are done in OOP. The book is very long (878 pages) but well regarded. Yes, OOP is the whole purpose of C++. When it first came out, I dismissed it as fluff (OOP was really new then and initial specs and implementations had not much power). By the time C95 came out, things had started to look more useful. By now (I've not looked in a long time) I'm sure it deserves its highly regarded status. snip sig stuff Well, don't want to pollute the list further. I'll just say that you should grab some small snippets of a real application to peruse as you go through the book. It will help assimilation (no, not the Borg kind!) immensely. Enjoy! -- Bill ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] gcc editor for newbie (Emacs or vim or ?) [Going OT]
On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 1:07 PM, William L. Maltby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 2008-08-11 at 12:38 -0500, Lanny Marcus wrote: On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 11:38 AM, William L. Maltby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks! Not much C experience. I'm an old Assembly Language guy. Trying to Ditto - IBM 360/370. Some things never leave. BALR 14, save area trace register 13, etc. I still love assembly. Speed and efficiency were my big thing. I began with IBM 360/65 ALC on an airline reservation system snip I finished the first chapter of the book. It is excellent. The author obviously worked in industry and knows what it is like, working in the real world. Yes, OOP is the whole purpose of C++. When it first came out, I dismissed it as fluff (OOP was really new then and initial specs and implementations had not much power). By the time C95 came out, things had started to look more useful. By now (I've not looked in a long time) I'm sure it deserves its highly regarded status. From reading the first chapter, I'm sure that is true. He wrote that 50 to 70% of projects end in failure. OOP should reduce that percentage. Well, don't want to pollute the list further. I'll just say that you should grab some small snippets of a real application to peruse as you go through the book. It will help assimilation (no, not the Borg kind!) immensely. I'll ask a former manager/colleague if he happens to have any code from a project he worked on that isn't classified, that he can send me. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
