C++; Visual C++ & C#

[JakesSA]

I started off a nice debate at the involving C++, if you haven't read it, click here . It got pritty spicey.

My next question would be, what is the difference between C++ and Visual C++. Is there any difference? Is Visual C++ ...Object oriented? (do you really have to know your stuff, in order to get it object orientated). And the same will probably go for C#.

If anybody knows of a article on the net, explaining the difference of the three (C++, Visual C++ and C#), it would probably help out alot...not only me, but will many of us out there, wanting to do APP development together with our PHP web development.

Thanks to all out there

[tomhath]

Brian Kernighan and Dennis Ritchie invented C because they didn't like programming their pdp-11 in assembler back in the early '70s.

Bjarne Stroudstrup added OO extensions on top of C, and called it C++ (a cute pun on the C increment operator). But because of backward compatibility issues, C++ is not really an OO language, it's C with extensions.

On Linux you get GNU C++ called gcc, which I believe is pretty much ANSI C++

A similar environment to what you get on Linux, but runs on Windows is Cygwin http://www.cygwin.com/

Microsoft made proprietary extensions to C++ and called it Visual C++

Sun lead a consortium to develop an all new OO language called Java and trademarked the name. Nobody can make proprietary extensions to the language and still call it Java. They also built a Development Kit for Java http://java.sun.com/products/

Of course, Microsoft made extensions and called it Java, Visual J++, etc. Sun sued them for violating the trademark.

Microsoft invented a completely new language for Windows.Net and called it C#. But if you look at it, C# looks remarkable like Java with Microsoft propietary extensions.

[jerdo]

I think tom pretty much covered the facts up there. If I were you I'd avoid C# for a while because just like he said it is just Microsoft "borrowed" version of Java with their own nonsense thrown in to try to pissoff Sun. Visual C++ is good if you want to program for Windows since it ties into Windows pretty well and takes some of the work out of creating the visual interface. However, if you want your code to be a little more portable between operating systems or just want to learn a more pure C++ and don't want to spend $ on Visual C++/Studio you should stick with something like gcc for *nix or a Windows port of the same (djgpp or the Cygwin project).