From: Chilkat Software <support@...>
Date: 2006-11-20T01:11:23+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby vs Java vs c++


About 20 years ago, when I graduated from University of Illinois' 
with a BS in Computer Science / Engineering,
the department's philosophy was for students to acquire an 
understanding of computers and programming
from the ground up.  That meant from the electronic circuit level, to 
the logic level (NAND and NOR gates),
to assembly programming, and on up.  My answer to the original 
question is based on this philosophy.
I recommend starting at the C/C++ level simply to gain a fundamental 
understanding of the bits & bytes,
pointers, pointer arithmetic, structure layouts, byte ordering, 
structure member alignment, dynamic memory
allocation on the heap as opposed to the stack, etc.   Understanding 
this gives you a good idea
as to what's going on "under the hood" with higher-level 
languages.  Things won't be so mysterious.
It'll pay off in the long run.

-Matt


At 09:45 AM 11/19/2006, you wrote:

>Paul Lutus wrote:
> > QTDesigner on Linux, plus a command-line utility called "rbuic", makes
> > creating GUI interfaces very easy ("rbuic" translates the GUI interface
> > specification into a Ruby source file). These may also be available on
> > Windows.
> >
>
>This was discussed recently, they aren't. Yet (maybe).
>
>David Vallner
>
>


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