Comments on: Developers quick to adopt .NET 2.0, slow to leave Visual C++ 6.0 http://www.itwriting.com/blog/32-developers-quick-to-adopt-net-20-slow-to-leave-visual-c-60.html Tech writing blog Sun, 12 Feb 2012 21:04:12 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Clyde Davies http://www.itwriting.com/blog/32-developers-quick-to-adopt-net-20-slow-to-leave-visual-c-60.html/comment-page-1#comment-58 Clyde Davies Wed, 01 Nov 2006 20:30:56 +0000 http://www.itwriting.com/blog/?p=32#comment-58 Funnily enough, I have just started using Visual C++ 6.0. As you know I'm a VB/VB.NET/C# programmer but I have decided to learn C++ for several reasons: * My brain needs to be stretched again * There will still be a need for C++ skills regardless of how 'managed' teh Vista API becomes * I'd like to learn to program to a high degree of control of the machine. So why Visual C++ 6.0? Well, the copy I have fell off the back of a lorry, but I'd choose this in preference to VC++ 8.0 as there is ONE lagnuage to learn instead of two: the latter's managed extensions are almost a second langauge in their own right. I also DON'T see the popint in using a low-level language if you are going to circumscribe what you do with it by using a mostly managed interface to interact with the machine. I am ploughing through Ivor Horton's excellent book on learning VC++ 6.0 and this convinces me that there will always be a need for the Office-model of document/view application programming, and that MFC's future is assured. Funnily enough, I have just started using Visual C++ 6.0. As you know I’m a VB/VB.NET/C# programmer but I have decided to learn C++ for several reasons:
* My brain needs to be stretched again
* There will still be a need for C++ skills regardless of how ‘managed’ teh Vista API becomes
* I’d like to learn to program to a high degree of control of the machine.

So why Visual C++ 6.0? Well, the copy I have fell off the back of a lorry, but I’d choose this in preference to VC++ 8.0 as there is ONE lagnuage to learn instead of two: the latter’s managed extensions are almost a second langauge in their own right. I also DON’T see the popint in using a low-level language if you are going to circumscribe what you do with it by using a mostly managed interface to interact with the machine.
I am ploughing through Ivor Horton’s excellent book on learning VC++ 6.0 and this convinces me that there will always be a need for the Office-model of document/view application programming, and that MFC’s future is assured.

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