YAY Lets all **** the world and switch to JAVA!
My god! Why is it everyone here is getting into C# and Java. Becouse you dont know graphics? Is C++ Too hard? Come ON! All of the net hype amounts to little, I would love to see a professional game or ANYTHING made in Java or C#, lolz I would SO LOVE to see an API written in C#. Microsoft and Sun are setting up to control everything with these things, you can't do anything without them wanting you to! I am not doing any C# and I hope the real programmers on this board agree! I do a bit of Java, becouse it has it's place. The Internet languages in my opinion belong doing what they are doing, makking menu's and little popup games, not becoming the main language. You all act like C++ is a stepping stone to the real languages, its the other way around, ASM, C++, and PASCEL are the real languages and the net stuff is the stepping stone, whtich I took in 5th grade.
SPH
I think you entirely mis understood.
You've misunderstood my post, the whole point of it WAS what you where just saying. I was saying that java and C# should be used for what they are good for. I know some VB, I know some Java, I've never tried c#, since it's new. C++ CAN have anything. You forget it is the creator of all that stuff, so it DOES have all of that stuff, just not in the same way. AND You forget C++ IS webpages, Not only are the browsers programmed in it (without that there would be no net languages) the interpreters, AND all of the drivers and such that support it!!! Theres an abuility to create "applets" its just not built it, you have to do it yourself. Make a dll that has a class wit han onButtonClick. Or make an applet interpreter it doesnt matter. Im saying java belongs on the internet, not makking professional programs. Its cool you made it, but its slow, so does it really belong as something you would sell and pur your name on? I didnt think so.
SPH
Languages without pointers...
Question: All versions of VB (and most BASIC languages) don't have pointers. How do you get anything done?! I know there's the VarPtr function and you can use, in conjunction with CopyMemoryRead, and CopyMemoryWrite, but - like everyone's been saying - you should use the right tool for the right job, and it doesn't seem to me that using WIndows API functions as pseudo-pointers is using the right tool for the right job when many other languages (C++, C, Java, and I assume C#) do have true pointers. I understand why you'd use VB - it makes creating Windows GUIs very, very easy. But most actual logic code, I find, is much <i>harder</i> to do in VB. So how do you "pros" do those kinds of things? Just with lots of DLLs; COM objects, perhaps?