On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 1:07 PM, William L. Maltby CentOS4Bill@triad.rr.com wrote:
On Mon, 2008-08-11 at 12:38 -0500, Lanny Marcus wrote:
On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 11:38 AM, William L. Maltby CentOS4Bill@triad.rr.com wrote: Thanks! Not much C experience. I'm an old Assembly Language guy. Trying to
Ditto - IBM 360/370. Some things never leave. BALR 14, save area trace register 13, etc. I still love assembly. Speed and efficiency were my big thing.
I began with IBM 360/65 ALC on an airline reservation system <snip>
I finished the first chapter of the book. It is excellent. The author obviously worked in industry and knows what it is like, working in the real world.
Yes, OOP is the whole purpose of C++. When it first came out, I dismissed it as "fluff" (OOP was really new then and initial specs and implementations had not much power). By the time C95 came out, things had started to look more useful. By now (I've not looked in a long time) I'm sure it deserves its highly regarded status.
From reading the first chapter, I'm sure that is true. He wrote that
50 to 70% of projects end in failure. OOP should reduce that percentage.
Well, don't want to pollute the list further. I'll just say that you should grab some small snippets of a real application to peruse as you go through the book. It will help assimilation (no, not the Borg kind!) immensely.
I'll ask a former manager/colleague if he happens to have any code from a project he worked on that isn't classified, that he can send me.