[LAD] Looking for an introduction to rt programming with a gui

[Olivier Guilyardi]

On 05/23/2010 10:22 PM, Chris Cannam wrote:

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> ... by which I don't mean to imply that I can't understand it
> (although, with C++, there is always the possibility that I _think_ I
> can understand it but am sadly mistaken because of some weird shit
> happening behind the scenes).  I just mean that I can't simply read
> it.

I once read a great (and funny) article arguing that you simple can't assume
anything about what the following means in C++:

a = b + c

Nothing

> This may be one really serious advantage for the everything-in-C types
> -- a competent C programmer can understand any C, whereas C++ is big
> enough to have many different "schools of C++" which are mutually
> unintelligible without further study.
> 
> That's also the seed of its popularity, I suppose -- everyone can
> write the way they like in it, and if you can't work out how to do it
> properly, you can always drop back into C.

Yeah, C rocks :-)

But, the problem is that, in my experience, C++ can increase productivity by a
factor of x10 or so over C. It's my personal experience. Very often, I have to
consider making a choice between the two, and I often end up coding the engine
in C and the rest in C++ or a dynamic language.

But maybe that, with experience and methodology, one can get as productive in C
as in C++? I suppose the guys at Gnome would agree with that..

--
  Olivier