[lug] Programming

[jd]

> >
> 
> That's a can of worms to open for a topic...
> 
> Opinion: You can't go further faster with VC++ compared to VBasic. You 
> can build nothing secure if you use VBasic. You can go further with VC++ 
> than VB by quite a lot if you spend time doing it. Lots of people have 
> been saying that one of the only things MS has done right lately is C# 
> (pronounced "C Sharp"), and that it is extremely good for fast and 
> elegant. Java is nice for some cross-platform things, but you might run 
> into version problems there too, and in many ways C++ (if you use 
> templates and template containers) is way beyond Java (though not 
> necessarily as useful under VC++, since VC++ templates lag behind the 
> times relative to g++). In linux, the Mono project does C#, though 
> apparently it isn't complete yet. The windows update link offers users a 
> chance to add the .NET framework, along with C# support, so although 
> some machines don't have C# support, they can easily get it directly 
> from MS updates.
> 
> The thing you haven't stated is what you expect to be doing, and what 
> you expect when done.
> 
> D. Stimits, stimits AT attbi DOT com
> 

well, This particlar application will transfer files from a windoz
box to a Linux server using ftp. Nothing to big.

All my programming is for little apps mostly to help speed up little
day to day activties. Dont want to write my own OS or anything like that
:) I have found perl and perl/tk to fill this job nicley on Linux/Unix.
But I would also like a language that has compiled binaries , works
on Linux,WIN,MacOSX. Compiled for security reasons. I dont know
much about Macs, but its looking like Java might be the easiest to
have run on multiple platforms.

Thaks for the help,
jd