Re: C++ Compiler On FreeBSD

2007-10-07 Thread Wojciech Puchar
i complete my software engineering degree. PHP isn't really a programming language. It's more a fancy templating for me it's just funny thing that needs several megs of RAM to display the current date ;) but as being treated as technology instead of just tool, it's used everythere without

Re: C++ Compiler On FreeBSD

2007-10-07 Thread cpghost
On Sat, 6 Oct 2007 20:53:00 +0100 James Jeffery [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Also if anyone wants to recommend any other books on C++ feel free. For beginners, I'd highly recommend C++ Primer / Fourth Ed. by Stanley B. Lippman et. al. But if you're starting to learn programming from scratch, it's

Re: C++ Compiler On FreeBSD

2007-10-07 Thread Wojciech Puchar
a lot of pitfalls and gotchas that you won't experience elsewhere (not so much with C itself, but with C++). And that's why it's good to start with C ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: C++ Compiler On FreeBSD

2007-10-07 Thread Christer Hermansson
James Jeffery wrote: Evening to you all (or morning in some parts of the world). Im learning C++ from Sams Teach Yourself C++, now many will call this a dumb method, and the books pointless and stupid, but i have no knowledge of any lower level languages, so i do need to be spoon fed the

Re: C++ Compiler On FreeBSD

2007-10-07 Thread Chad Perrin
On Sat, Oct 06, 2007 at 10:13:56PM +0200, Roland Smith wrote: On Sat, Oct 06, 2007 at 08:53:00PM +0100, James Jeffery wrote: Evening to you all (or morning in some parts of the world). Im learning C++ from Sams Teach Yourself C++, now many will call this a dumb method, and the books

Re: C++ Compiler On FreeBSD

2007-10-07 Thread Chad Perrin
On Sun, Oct 07, 2007 at 12:07:59AM +, Aryeh Friedman wrote: PHP isn't really a programming language. It's more a fancy templating system that happens to be able to use extensions that can provide C style linkage. That said, I laude you for your desire to learn a real programming

Re: C++ Compiler On FreeBSD

2007-10-07 Thread Chad Perrin
On Sun, Oct 07, 2007 at 10:08:58AM +0200, Wojciech Puchar wrote: i complete my software engineering degree. PHP isn't really a programming language. It's more a fancy templating for me it's just funny thing that needs several megs of RAM to display the current date ;) but as being

Re: C++ Compiler On FreeBSD

2007-10-07 Thread Roland Smith
On Sat, Oct 06, 2007 at 10:33:12AM -0600, Chad Perrin wrote: In the Unix world (such as with FreeBSD), I'd recommend C before C++, too -- though probably long after Ruby or Perl. Too right. But it should be noted that both C and C++ give you enough rope to hang yourself with. My preference

Re: C++ Compiler On FreeBSD

2007-10-07 Thread cpghost
On Sun, 7 Oct 2007 17:08:30 +0200 Roland Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My preference for doing things is; 1) Can it be done with a shell-script? (esp. one-time hacks) 2) Else use Perl, Octave, Ruby, but 3) If speed is key, use C. :-) Yup, exactly. In Python, that's what extension modules

C++ Compiler On FreeBSD

2007-10-06 Thread James Jeffery
Evening to you all (or morning in some parts of the world). Im learning C++ from Sams Teach Yourself C++, now many will call this a dumb method, and the books pointless and stupid, but i have no knowledge of any lower level languages, so i do need to be spoon fed the basics. Im using Borland C++

Re: C++ Compiler On FreeBSD

2007-10-06 Thread RW
On Sat, 6 Oct 2007 20:53:00 +0100 James Jeffery [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Im using Borland C++ compiler on XP and was wondering what compilers there are for FreeBSD that would allow me to compile and execute some of the examples i will practise from the book. gcc, the system C compiler, is a

Re: C++ Compiler On FreeBSD

2007-10-06 Thread Manolis Kiagias
James Jeffery wrote: Evening to you all (or morning in some parts of the world). Im learning C++ from Sams Teach Yourself C++, now many will call this a dumb method, and the books pointless and stupid, but i have no knowledge of any lower level languages, so i do need to be spoon fed the

Re: C++ Compiler On FreeBSD

2007-10-06 Thread Roland Smith
On Sat, Oct 06, 2007 at 08:53:00PM +0100, James Jeffery wrote: Evening to you all (or morning in some parts of the world). Im learning C++ from Sams Teach Yourself C++, now many will call this a dumb method, and the books pointless and stupid, but i have no knowledge of any lower level

Re: C++ Compiler On FreeBSD

2007-10-06 Thread James Jeffery
Hi all, thanks for the fast replys, much appreciated. Manolis: Yep, its the book by Jesse, i never believe them when they say in 24 hours, its a snag for them to sell the book, they just split it up into 24 sections to make it look like its possible. Roland: Ive been working with PHP over the

Re: C++ Compiler On FreeBSD

2007-10-06 Thread Wojciech Puchar
Im learning C++ from Sams Teach Yourself C++, now many will call this a dumb method, and the books pointless and stupid, but i have no knowledge of any lower level languages, so i do need to be spoon fed the basics. so you should start from lower level first - learn C first :) C is easy. it's

Re: C++ Compiler On FreeBSD

2007-10-06 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2007-10-06 20:53, James Jeffery [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Evening to you all (or morning in some parts of the world). Im learning C++ from Sams Teach Yourself C++, now many will call this a dumb method, and the books pointless and stupid, but i have no knowledge of any lower level

Re: C++ Compiler On FreeBSD

2007-10-06 Thread Christopher Nehren
On 2007-10-06, James Jeffery top-posted. [ please don't do that, it makes it very difficult to format responses correctly and makes it just about as hard to read and understand them ] Hi all, thanks for the fast replys, much appreciated. Manolis: Yep, its the book by Jesse, i never believe them

Re: C++ Compiler On FreeBSD

2007-10-06 Thread Aryeh Friedman
PHP isn't really a programming language. It's more a fancy templating system that happens to be able to use extensions that can provide C style linkage. That said, I laude you for your desire to learn a real programming language, and agree with the recommendation that you start with something