Posted on 10/31/2008 11:14:46 AM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach
No, I did take the time to read most of several chapters, although the Reagan reference was flippant. The C++ stuff was so obviously out of date (eg pre-STL), that I went and checked the t copyright date. So, as a technicaly guide, its almost useless, although I suppose that as a historical reference, there is some value there.
Your code example is more a C issue than a C++ one.
Wow, I had forgotten all about Deskview/X. Yea that could work.
I’m not attempting to hijack the thread but you seem like a great person to ask. I have an old PC that I’m thinking of putting linux on but I am currious to know if it would be a waste of my time. It is a Dell Pentium II 300 MegaHertz with 192 Megs of RAM. Any suggestions?...JD
It depends on what your objective is. Sure, you could load a Linux distro on it, although it might be painful.
If you want to learn about Linux and understand more about drivers, (and possibly recompiling the kernel?) go for it. You’ll struggle enough with the exercise that you’ll actually learn a few things: what not to do, where to find stuff, etc.
If you want to use the system for every day purposes, don’t waste your time.
Yes, anything critical runs on “real” UNIX, like AIX. (I sure hope you don’t mean SCO UNIX.)
But for most small to medium size webservers (that make up a significant majority of the Net), Linux is their first choice. (That and Apache, MySQL, and PHP.)
Yes, I know the Net has move beyond LAMP now, but enough of it still exists to call it “classic.”
Ok, how about C++’s [lack] of inheritance.
There’s no constructor inheritance!
Also, the private/protected/public access specifiers are implemented in a more “source-code”-al way instead of on the conceptual level.
And the way in which it handles inheritance is disgusting, more like defining some interface than actually inheriting something.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.