Hi, Well, there are a few considerations here. 'C', 'CPP' are examples of languages which produce code running close to the OS, and the Hardware. One works there on the coal face, dealing directly with actual memory locations, and de Operating System. the vagarities of the hardware components, etc. This can lead on occasion to hard to detect bugs, and crashes. A Strash is a famous example. Another consideration is that the Supplier of the OS can literally pull the carpet from underneath your feet, by deprecating your favourite OS. Another disadvantage is that you must maintain different versions of Source Code if you want toi write for more than One Platform. On the other hand, just because you deal directly with the OS and Hardware, you can do all sorts of tricks that cannot be done in'Synthetic' languages, such as say C# or Java. These languages run on a 'Virtual Machine' in a 'Virtual Environment' When you find yourself in such an environment, you may forget about playing even the most innocent trick. That virtual machine knows nothing about memory, but talks in variables. The advantage here is, that this a far more friendly environment to write in, it tries not to allow you to write wrong code. Also, your code will probably run from now till kingdom come on every computer and OS. Now, it should also be remembered, that as a society, we cannot ever dispense with languages such as C and CPP. Languages such as C# Java, and many others are actually written using 'C' and 'CPP' I personally think that you could do worse than learning 'C' and 'CPP', in particular if in the latter you incorporate 'MFC' Note: C# Java, vs 'C' and 'CPP' are very similar in syntax. The devil is in the syntactical detail!!! Regards, :)
Bram van Kampen
