Re: What are the benefits?

From: Aggro (spammerdream_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 11/17/04 

Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2004 20:13:13 GMT

Richard Seguin wrote:
> I know a couple programming langages that are...well basically scripting
> tck/tk, python ... etc etc... I want to dive into the C++ world but I
> can't figure out what kind of purpose it would serve. The book that I
> bought just seems to play around with variables and classes and tells
> you the do's and don'ts... I really haven't saw an end result. They
> claim that you can link to a gui but the code looks so cryptic that I
> wonder if it is even worth my time...

Check out this list:
http://www.research.att.com/~bs/applications.html

It tells you only a few examples that have been written mostly or
complitely with C++. The list contains names like Photoshop, Acrobat,
Windows (9x, NT, XP), Winamp, Doom III Engine, all Microsoft games, KDE
(from Linux)... And like the writer says: "and this list holds maybe
1000th of the ones I have heard of".

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