yeah K... you're a lil off... as a matter of fact, that is the point i'm making... or trying to make... i think...
what i am saying is... that it doesn't matter what dialect you are conversant in... especially if it's a contest between VB, Delphi vs c++...
what matters is the knowledge of what's actually going on... under the pretty guis and control palettes that VB and Delphi shield most 'users' from...
and, accpet it or not, there are many VB and Delphi people who assert that they are ace programmers... and would never entertain the idea that they are not... but they are merely users of VB... with just a notch more knowledge than the user of the app that they are putting together...
not a bad thing at all though... in its own right...
and it is this regard that, if there is indeed any legitimacy to the superiority claims of some c++ coders... that there may be a hint of validity...
but the point that i was making... trying to make... is that the difference between a programmer, a good programmer, and a really good programmer, lies not in the language of choice... but in the knowledge of the environment that that person is coding against...
directx... sql... networking... the internet... etc... the CLR... .NET... and many others...
knowledge of how these things work... and how to interface your ideas, regardless of the tool you choose to implement those ideas...
... that is the yeardstick for grading that i use.
--Mike
what i am saying is... that it doesn't matter what dialect you are conversant in... especially if it's a contest between VB, Delphi vs c++...
what matters is the knowledge of what's actually going on... under the pretty guis and control palettes that VB and Delphi shield most 'users' from...
and, accpet it or not, there are many VB and Delphi people who assert that they are ace programmers... and would never entertain the idea that they are not... but they are merely users of VB... with just a notch more knowledge than the user of the app that they are putting together...
not a bad thing at all though... in its own right...
and it is this regard that, if there is indeed any legitimacy to the superiority claims of some c++ coders... that there may be a hint of validity...
but the point that i was making... trying to make... is that the difference between a programmer, a good programmer, and a really good programmer, lies not in the language of choice... but in the knowledge of the environment that that person is coding against...
directx... sql... networking... the internet... etc... the CLR... .NET... and many others...
knowledge of how these things work... and how to interface your ideas, regardless of the tool you choose to implement those ideas...
... that is the yeardstick for grading that i use.
--Mike