Patrick wrote: > Hi Allin > > I have no interest in QT. > > Your points are very strong. > > If most of the free/libre software is in C then I better stick with C, > especially if learning C++ does not guarantee an understanding of > plain C. > > Thanks very much for your help, it's easy to keep going around in > circles over these sorts of things, you have saved me a lot of time. > > Have a great weekend-Patrick > > P.S thanks to everyone else that posted too! > > Allin Cottrell wrote: >> On Sat, 24 Nov 2007, Patrick wrote: >> >>> Sorry for the flame war bait, I know how passionate language debates >>> get but I need some guidance. I am using PyGTK right now and I am >>> happy with it, but a day is coming soon were the speed limitations >>> and less-then-straight-forward threading will be an issue. >>> >>> I figure my next move should be to learn C or C++. I would like to >>> stay up-to-date with things and I would like to be able to reuse GTK >>> code from other Apps. >>> >>> I thought that C++ must be the way to go as it can do everything >>> that C can "plus plus" but some heavy hitters don't seem enthused >>> with it, >> >> I'll restrict myself to the factual. >> C++ is almost but not exactly a superset of C. However, don't let >> that fool you into thinking that if you learn C++ you've >> automatically learned C as a bonus. The programming idioms are quite >> different in the two languages. >> One reason for going with C is that the great bulk of free software >> is in C, including GLib and GTK. The main exception is Qt, the basis >> for KDE. So if you might want to get into KDE programming, maybe >> learning C++ would be better. >> >> Allin Cottrell. >> > >
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