I've been programming in C for about 8 months, but I've now ditched in in favour of VB, because I now want to program for Windows.
I really enjoyed C, and did put it to good use by creating little file editing utilities.
Before you wade too deeply in C, ask yourself what is it that you ultimately want to achieve, and then ask yourself what is the right language for the job.
Odd. I've been writing Windows GUI applications in C for the last 10 years.
I started out with VB 6 but had to move away from it due to its "mis-integration" with the Win32 API making me feel like I had to acquire a firearm and teach people on the street about what its inflexible typecasting meant to them.
If you're just interested in the classes aspect of languages, I've found that in most cases people aren't serious about it and end up making classes that they don't reuse, so arguably they could've implemented the same in C with separate data/functions and zero performance difference.
I know about the basics of C++ (although I do know Java better, thanks to university bias), but it is hard to shake the C habit once you've picked it up.
I think I need to go to rehab.
On the plus side though, my debugging skills are first rate.
Last edited by SMurf; 08-09-2009 at 07:22 AM. Reason: Forgot about the debugging bit
