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Destiny of Visual C++

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by mirams

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hello.
i'm a visual C++ programer and i have tried to work on VB.net, VC.net, and C#. i did not find a big change in VC but i found a great change in VB and i did not find a special character for C#. i think it is torn between C, Java, and VB. all IT ppl say it is the future of programing. but actually i still find VC is the most powerfull programing language for real programers. do u ppl think that a day is comming soon when VC will be just a history???? Sorry for the long introduction.

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by madestroitsolutions

No offense or hard feelings, but You being a programmer should know better than that. What's the heart of a computer coded on?

C++, Visual C++, C#, are all the same thing: C Language. What's changing here is the way you code, and the tools you use to code, not the language itself (except for some minor modifications and enhancements and VB's complete 'C like' redesign).

As for .NET technologies, of course you must move on. Microsoft is implementing their new framework, so we now have to use their new tool, Visual Studio .NET . It is definitely the future of programming, and the reason is very simple: they are not changing the languages, they are changing THE FRAMEWORK.

I hope that helps. Good Luck!

(I am no god, so I might be wrong, but I give it a shot anyways :)

by ram_cv

Hi,
In my opinion Programming languages are just means to achieve a solution. Each Programming Language has its own core features which makes it popular.
VC++ has been doing good because of close association with the C language which enabling it to scale to Windows programming.
Whether VC would be a history or not is a question that would be difficult to answer, but what needs to be taken into account is the amount of existing code in VC. This would mean that at least for a significant amount of time to come VC would be alive, something like even today there are more application developers in COBOL, than any other programming language and this so long after people have written the obituary of COBOL.

Another point to consider here is the fact, that the USPs of C++ are being adopted by the other languages. C# takes in a lot of good features from VC++ and takes away a lot of the hard work out. So maybe you might begin to see a lot of VC++ in C# soon!!

Hope that helps!
Cheers!
Ram

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