[lug] Programming

[Mr Viggy]

I noticed that C# was mentioned.  I'd stay away from that.  It's 
Microsoft's "answer" to Java, and I didn't think it was cross platform.

If you want to stick with C++, then forget about MFC, and learn 
wxWindows.  It's an open source toolkit that links on both Linux and 
Windows, without having a bunch of #ifdefs in yout code.  You just take 
one set of code, compile it on Linux and BAM.  Then take the same set of 
code, compile it on Windows, and BAM, BAM.

http://www.wxwindows.org

Viggy

PS.  If you don't have a pressing need for C++, I'd just use Java.

jd wrote:
>>
>>Hi jd,
>>
>>Since you're contemplating a jump from PERL to C++ or from PERL to VB,
>>why not move from PERL to Java?  Java is yet another language with
>>C-like syntax and with Java you'd get:
>>
>>  1) a free (as in beer) SDK and runtime
>>
>>  2) easier (than C/C++) memory management
>>
>>  3) an *immense* range of free (again, as in beer) and 
>>     remarkably well-documented libraries for various 
>>     problem domains, and
>>
>>  4) a framework thats about as close to WORA (write once 
>>     run anywhere) as anything currently gets.
>>
>>Ed
> 
> 
> Thank you for the idea Ed. I had not considered Java. I will have
> to look into it. Are there nice GUI widgets like in perl/tk ? 
> 
> All this searching for a new Language is having me realize just
> how Bad-Ass and easy Perl on a Unix platform is....what, you dont know
> hot to parse that text file in perl?...well throw in some backticks
> and use grep... I know this is frowned upon, but for a newbie with
> a deadline, Perl/Linux is hard to beat!
> 
> Thanks all for the Help,
> JD
> 
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