Which language do I learn?
Sandy
sganz at wgn.net
Fri Jul 11 19:05:48 GMT 1997
At 09:02 AM 7/11/97 -0700, you wrote:
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>> From: Bosch, AN, Andrew, Dr <ABOSCH at sports.uct.ac.za>
>> To: diy_efi at coulomb.eng.ohio-state.edu
>> Subject: Re:Which language do I learn?
>> Date: Friday, July 11, 1997 3:30 AM
>>
>> Hi all. I want to learn a programming language most suited to the
>> sort of stuff discussed on this list i.e. for ignition and FI
>> control. "C" seems to come up often, but I've also seen reference to
>> Visual Basic, Delphi, etc. I know the VERY basics "C", but so little
>> that it would be easy to change at this point. Speaking of "c", there
>> seems to be so many variants of that! Please help.
>>
> I'm sure I'm going to get blasted on this but I think it is best to learn
>Delphi (you'll actually be learning Pascal) because then you can generate
>easy to use programs quickly for either EFI or any stuff in general. C is
>more of the excepted norm but Delphi compilations are fast and much more
>versatile, and much easier to use, and very cheap right now. Oh, if you
>learn C you can count on having to learn C++ which is the object oriented
>version of C. With Delphi you get it all in one step.
>
Delphi is very good (I work for Borland!), but if you like the way Delphi
works, but really want C/C++, the product to get is C++ Builder. It is
exaclty like delphi V2.0 and you don't have to be a C++ expert to use it,
ie, don't need to be a MFC expert to write window programs.
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