C++ not used for applications any more?

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Quite, Delphi is very powerful

  • also VB, not the stuff called VB.NET, can be used for a lot more than people think
  • once you can get at Windows APIs there is not much holding you back

I suppose it all depends on the type of App, things designed for the home market are unlikely to use the .NET framework.

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[QUOTE=groman]
coughDelphicough

And besides that, if you’re accessing raw APIs how is C++ any better than Python, Perl, C, Pascal or even Fortran at allowing you to create professional looking windows?
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Not my fault that API’s tend to be linked to a particular language even though others can access it. shrugs

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[QUOTE=Sage Rat]
Not my fault that API’s tend to be linked to a particular language even though others can access it. shrugs
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Well the convention is StdCall and the packing is .. I forget what .. which is not really linked to C, I suppose the Windows designers did not want to risk Caller Cleanup which could hide problems for years.

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Agreed Delphi is powerful - and for those like me who preferred the interface but wanted C++, CBuilder is a great tool too. We do 90% of our development in it.

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[QUOTE=Khadaji]
Agreed Delphi is powerful - and for those like me who preferred the interface but wanted C++, CBuilder is a great tool too. We do 90% of our development in it.
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For obscure reasons I loathe the C syntax, probably because I learnt ASM before reading K&R’s White Book

Realistically a ‘language’ is an instruction set, with a load of library code bolted on.

Borland (or as they are now, CodeGear) did a good job of hiding the grunt work, without making it hard to get at. I consider your path rational, although I would have used pure Delphi.

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[QUOTE=FRDE]
For obscure reasons I loathe the C syntax, probably because I learnt ASM before reading K&R’s White Book

Realistically a ‘language’ is an instruction set, with a load of library code bolted on.

Borland (or as they are now, CodeGear) did a good job of hiding the grunt work, without making it hard to get at. I consider your path rational, although I would have used pure Delphi.
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I learned C as my first language and C++ not long after. I tried to learn Delphi and I found it frustrating in as much as it was close enough to what I knew to be able to read it, but required that I look up nearly everything to program in it. And of course, the shop I was in had (what I considered to be) some horrible programming practices, making the code that much more difficult for me. What I love about it though is it is blazingly fast to compile - much faster than C++.