programming languages

[Charlie Derr]

Hi Leon

~ Hi Frequency UnKnown, you wrote on 10/27/99 3:03:49 AM:
~
~
~ >given that i can get either
~ >relatively cheaply as a student, can anyone provide some advice
~ on either
~ >of
~ >these and a comparison if poss. w.r.t the following:
~ >
~ >1 - can i open it and start making 'hello world' apps or am i forced to
~ >learn a sh*tload of API stuff and attack a massive UI packed
~ with features
~ >i
~
~ if u gonna use preMade Api wrappers - then you cannot really use
~ those with
~ speed/grunt in mind: when big companies make Api wrappers they
~ make it for
~ general/common use - that is not really created with max possible
~ speed in
~ mind - i found that writing your own wrappers is much more effective when
~ it comes using oop design and still retaining speed. So really Visual or
~ Borland - as long as a compiler can compile WinSDK  - then any will do -
~ write your own ;-)

someone else suggested java  --  do speed considerations make real-time java
programming silly, or is it possible to do some of this stuff in java rather
than c++  ?

or does the reality of aiming for a desktop type machine (500Mhz or so
presently) mean that the elaborateness of one's algorithms is really
limited?

~charlie


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