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Which Language first?
ahri:
kylix is object pascal
apparently, kylix 3 will let you use either C++ or object pascal http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/26321.html
The thing i like about kylix is that is lets you use assembly right in your source code. But for some reason, i don't like object pascal. The interface section and all those uses statments are really annoying. Couldn't they be hidden or something. I don't want to see all that junk in my source code, just the routines and maybe variable decs. And that semi colon before the equals sign looks weird for some reason. Maybe i just need to get used to it.
voidmain:
I used to like Borland a lot and they have received a lot of money from me for TP, BP, TC, BC, and Delphi. I have grown far away from them in the last few years though. They are still far better than M$ for development.
I have grown very fond of the UNIX way of programming. Several shell prompts, vim, and gcc. Agreed writing graphical apps can be much speedier with RAD tools such as kdevelop.
I imagine that Kylix would be very proprietary. That is I wonder how easy it would be to generate portable C++ code using Kylix and then be able to take that code over to another platform (or even just another machine with the same OS) and be able to compile it using gcc. That is a *must*. It would do me no good if everyone that wanted to compile my code would have to have Kylix, or have to do a considerable amount of code manipulation.
ciaran:
Just been reading through this topic and something struck me. Why does nobody recommend java??? I've been forced (damn university) to learn java and c++ and i really like both. I also had to learn visual basic for a job and it just stinks. For simplicity I (in my very very humble opinion) defo recommend java as a stepping stone to c++...
the_black_angel:
Java is not very well implemented in Linux (that i know of let me know if im wrong)
It does not run well in microshit at all.
Mac OS X is the only OS that i know of (besides sun) that full implements Java. what i have seen of Java i like i haven't actually learnt it yet but i will (maybe the next holidays).
voidmain:
Huh? Java usually isn't distributed with Linux because it is proprietary if that is what you mean. Get Java for Linux from http://java.sun.com
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