Re: Newbie: The C / C++ Issue
I've been programming in C for over 20 years. I've gotten up to speed on C++ for work. I like the expression in C you can shoot yourself in the foot, in C++ you can blow off your leg. C++ does have advantages -- but I haven't seen most C++ programmers use them -- instead they often obscure the problem at hand by making the implementation more complicated than the problem they're trying to solve. BTW -- I've been doing object oriented stuff in C for years -- its harder, but its doable. You have a much simpler language to deal with. First learn how to write good programs in C. Then see if C++ buys you anything extra. If it doesn't, you don't need C++. But I've seen far too much C++ that's just obscure C. Just my experience and opinion. marty ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Newbie: The C / C++ Issue
My take on computer science (which is an oxymoron) is this: Researchers look at successful programmers and try to figure out what they're doing. In the 70s, it was structured programming. In the late 80s it was object oriented. You can manipulate the data with a struct -- put in function pointers to methods -- which is a crude way to do polymorphism. Don't forget -- cfront translated C++ into C code... OO doesn't promote reuse -- good design promotes reuse. I've been reusing code for years. I'm like Will Tracz -- a used program salesman ;-) I've reused a lot of procedural code. One of my coworkers took a C++ course, renamed her structs to classes and thought she was doing object-oriented stuff...please...!! The bottom line is can other people understand your program. What I've seen is you have far less of a chance in C++ than in C. I've recently read Stroustrup's book and got more involved in C++ -- it seems the principle of least surprise was thrown out the window. marty ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: xfstt and KDE3
Frans-Jan v. Steenbeek [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes on Thu, 25 Sep 2003 06:35:40 +0200 Hi folks, I recently decided to switch from Gnome to KDE wich I never used before. Before doing so, I decided to fully reinstall my system. I used xfstt for my TrueType fonts, and never had any problems with that. I installed FreeBSD 4.7 with XFree86-3.3.6_11, kde-3.1.3 and xfstt-1.6 all from packages (I hate compiling, and my system does too due to lack of diskspace at times). Everything went well, I'm a happy KDE-user now, but for one thing: the TrueType-fonts won't work in any KDE-app. But when I invoke a GTK-based program (tested XMMS and the GIMP (GTK-1) and AbiWord and gedit (GTK-2) ) the fonts work fine in that program. Also, running xlsfonts | grep ttf gives me a fine list of my 57 fonts. one odd thing though: when xfstt starts, it gives me an error about opening the font database, then rebuilds it, syncs and works. It does that every time again. I then tried xfstt-1.4 (wich I had on my previous install) wich works fine (gives that error the first time, then it's happy). Now, is this a KDE-related problem? It seems to be, cause everything else works fine. What to be done? Any suggestions? (Please CC me, I'm not on the list) thanks! -- tcGB Fi-Ji Well, I'm not sure if this is the same type of problem... I just got truetype fonts installed (I'm running linux [redhat 7/8]). I'm building kde-3.1.4. (I like to build things myself ;-)) I'm using xfstt 1.6. But when I enable truetype fonts, none of the kde-3.1.4 applications run -- they all start up, but quickly crashes, the crash dialog doesn't stay up... When I disable the truetype fonts, no problem... I was going to ask the KDE folks about this... marty ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
