What is the deal with visual studio?

**JSoftware** · 11-04-2008, 05:26 AM

Because it's unofficially part of the language specification.

Do you overload them in the normal sense or have you operator overloaded them?

**NecroDOME** · 11-04-2008, 03:02 PM

I had the same with MSVS in a code base of 900+ files. Image a total rebuild of that. (well, not all files where used, but it still took also 30-45 minutes). Delphi is indeed faster. Way faster!! And C++ barfs out a whole bunch of linker files (dunno the exact name of them, forgive me) that took over 1 GB disk space. (insane). Delphi also has DCU files, but I the are generated a lot faster.

**arthurprs** · 11-04-2008, 05:49 PM

Originally Posted by JSoftware

Because it's unofficially part of the language specification.

Do you overload them in the normal sense or have you operator overloaded them?

i have a utils.pas (normal sense)
with overloaded inc functions for single and double (only need those)
and i also writed a Mult function :?

**chronozphere** · 11-04-2008, 07:22 PM

Yeah.. kudo's for borland and their pascal compiler.

I will only learn C++ because it's the industry standard, not because i like it. I tried Dev-C++ but there were some major problems with it, when using vista. I also noticed that the compile-time errors were really obscure IMHO, when compared with clean understandable delphi errors.

I also don't like the the seperate headers and source files. Does it have advantages to have those seperated? It sure gives you a lot of extra files to take care of. Personally i also don't like the case-sensitivity in the language. And finally, i noticed that many people complain about the use of pointers within the language. Being forced to use pointers is IMHO "a really bad thing".

Just out of curiosity Any of you guy's ever done a "nightly build" when working on a pascal project?? :razz:

Nevertheless, i would like to try C++ and learn to use it. What IDE/Compiler do you guy's recommend?? :?

**arthurprs** · 11-04-2008, 08:17 PM

Originally Posted by chronozphere

I will only learn C++ because it's the industry standard

same here

Originally Posted by chronozphere

I also noticed that the compile-time errors were really obscure IMHO, when compared with clean understandable delphi errors.

do already tried compile some 3rd party library's? (when i was trying to compile mpg123, i spent a moth fixing some files)

Originally Posted by chronozphere

I also don't like the the seperate headers and source files. Does it have advantages to have those seperated?

advantage, i don't see any, only more files to worry about..

tons of pointers, case sens., .... , ...,
the lack of a decent string type is another problem....

ps: another thing i like in C is sscanf()