Re: Why C?

"Max" <bilbo@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> But in Visual Basic that notepad would be created as:
>
> 1. A form
> 2. A multi-line text box
> 3. A basic menu
> 4. Some code to handle save and load
>
> Done.
>
> Doable in maybe 10 minutes.
I do not need VB for that. It's easy to do the same in Tcl/Tk, or some
Smalltalk or ...

However I found this yesterday:
http://charlespetzold.com/etc/DoesVisualStudioRotTheMind.html


>
> Visual Basic - rapid production of a program that does just enough.
> C - for a more honed version; but possibly also more fun with tracking
> memory leaks.
Yeah GC has it's merits, we fully agree, so we included the
Boehm-Weiser GC in our libraries. However other think it's not C-ish
to rely on it.... Well those get lucky with C also they can do it all
on their own.

>
> Subsequent support - the Visual Basic would potentially be a single file
> (from the IDE view) with a few tens of lines, if that.
> To add more 'word processing' features - delete text box; replace with rich
> text box. Replace custom file load/save with rich text box methods that
> handle all this for you.
Well the API for such stuff is available for C also. And other have
their own way of doing things.


But how many VB generations will you code survive? 1 maybe 2? It must
be fun to just re-implement such kind of stuff with nearly every new
version. And if you have bet on VB you are fully spoiled with
VB.NET.

Regards
Friedrich


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