From: "Holland Guldberg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Most of my programming background is C, and 16bit assembly, with an
emphasis
> on programming for embedded systems. I have minimal experience in the
MSVC++
C++ != C
Especially with GUI apps they look very very different. It becomes a very
Fat language with a huge pile of features (most unused) and a complicated
development environment with a long learning curve.
> My group has been creating small GUI apps to manipulate hex files,
> and text log files, and other Win32 programs.
MSVC++ would be overkill. I wouldn't suggest getting into it unless you
want that as a career path.
> I have access to many people that know and understand perl,
Who will smirk knowingly if MSVC++ gives you problems :-))
I'd suggest Visual Basic as alternative to C++. Quicker to pick up
without selling your soul and you can embed perl into it quite nicely.
However, your experience suggests Perl is as better choice. (Its even
assemblerlike with the $_ as an accumulator :-), and your initial Perl code
will look very much like C.
Win32::GUI has an interesting future. Micros~1 will be shipping Perl
with the OS eventually and Win32::GUI is gonna go public instead of being
limited to a small number of brilliant, insightful, dedicated, devoted and
playful, oddball developers. :-)))
(IMHO, YMMV, warranty void if seal is broken)
Rob
http://bangkokwizard.com/snatch/
"Perl is a mess and that's good because the problem space is also a mess." -
Larry Wall
