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Just 2 quick questions:
1) How do people know what language to choose? There are
so many opinions and marketing spiel on the web, it is
very hard to understand the core differences and
benefits/drawbacks of each. How did you learn the
differences? Or is there an article somewhere on the web
you could point me to?

2) If there are not many C++ books being published any
more for VC++, does this mean effectively VC++ programmers
must teach themselves things and learn from message posts
at codeguru.com etc? It seems like you already have to be
really smart at that language to learn new things through
self-teaching or peers.

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Tony Jarvis <> wrote:
> Just 2 quick questions:
> 1) How do people know what language to choose?

What's your background? Do you know C++? Java? VB6? VFP?

> There are
> so many opinions and marketing spiel on the web, it is
> very hard to understand the core differences and
> benefits/drawbacks of each. How did you learn the
> differences? Or is there an article somewhere on the web
> you could point me to?

http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/pr...s/default.aspx
http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/pr...o/roadmap.aspx

> 2) If there are not many C++ books being published any
> more for VC++, does this mean effectively VC++ programmers
> must teach themselves things and learn from message posts ...

What about the books that are already in existence, or are you referring to
hardcopy of what's in MSDN?

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Cindy Winegarden MCSD, Microsoft Visual FoxPro MVP
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