What do you guys thing?
I, personally, love data streams. They are so customizeable and fun to work with. I never really had any interest in learning FILE* after i learned streams.
And anyway, aren't FILE* commands just for backward compatability?
If we've got iostream.h, why the hell don't we use it?
Unfortunately if you want smaller faster code, with the majority of libraries streams aren't the way to go.
i guess it depends on if you want flexibility, or a little more speed...
Yeah, depends what you want to do. Although for the virtually any console mode program, I doubt whether a printf() will have any noticeable gains over cout<< so it's whatever your more comfortable with. I think both have their pros and cons.
For intensive formating, writing to screen or file with printf-style functions seems easier but more powerful.
In the end, it's personal taste, though.
hth
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i've never used streams... (to my knowledge...) just printf and fopen and f*whatever functions... and that is a question i've always wondered myself. do you all recommend i bother learning about streams? i seem to do fine without them... thank you
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Streams are part of the Standard C++ Library. I've heard that they are not used much, nor is much of the C++ STL because people use vedor libraries instead. But if you do not have the authority 'book' on STL and have not read The C++ Programming Language cover to cover or 'D&E' than how can you claim to know C++? Instead you will just know OOP methodology.
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i don't know about that, guy. The only time i don't use the STL is when i'm using MFC. Then i use the MFC libraries. MFC accounts for about 15 percent of my programing..., nor is much of the C++ STL because people use vedor libraries instead
Okay, well that is alright but I've noticed a lot of people making pure language comparisons with the new .NET languages and wonder how much they really depend on the C++ definition. Microsoft has a lot of great C++ string handling and graphics libraries, etc. At some point, how are these abstractions different than migrating to a managed language? How honest will people be when they compare languages. I've never seen anyone site the strength of the CString object yet it is probably used a lot in real programs. I think that vendor libraries should not be overlooked, yet I also think that a C++ programmer should learn the entire definition.
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Visual Studio.NET beta2
