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Subj : Re: C Programming HELP...
To   : borland.public.cpp.borlandcpp
From : Andrew Fenton
Date : Thu Jun 24 2004 03:52 pm

"Jeremy Pham" <j_m_pham@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:40db1ec9$1@newsgroups.borland.com...

> ..And what about Delphi 7 Personal Edition, and C# Builder Personal
Edition? How do these languages compare to C++? With graphics/gaming, what
purchase do you guys suggest?

In the interest of fair disclosure, I have never used either one.  From my
understanding, Delphi is an object-oriented version of Pascal.  By analogy,
one might say that Delphi is to Pascal what C++ (object-oriented) is to C
(procedure-oriented).  If you choose Delphi, you are choosing to learn a
different (though not entirely unfamiliar) language.

Again, by my understanding, C# is a C/C++ -like language that has
incorporated Microsoft's .NET framework.  This may be great if you only want
to use your source code on .NET supporting OSs, but you will have some
recoding to do if you ever want to transfer your application to a different,
non-.NET platform.  Furthermore, .NET apparently does not apply to any OS
other than Windows 2000, XP, or Server 2003.

Regards,
Andrew

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