SAST (Students Against Stupid Turing)

[Tony]

rizzix wrote:

mocking me of course hehe

wha? why?

If I was to get into CCC stage 2 next year, I'd want to use eclipse 8)

[krishon]

lol, i think it wuz my post

[BlAcK TuRtLe]

turing is an ok language. I found that turing was easy to learn and now im doing java and find most of the structures etc are the same with just different words.

[rizzix]

uhm.. actually there is a difference.. you'll get to that i guess deeper in the course. although most of it is pretty much the same concepts.. but you won't get too fool around with modules in java.

[krishon]

yah...java and c++ are interchangable, once you know one, it won't be too hard to switch to another

[Andy]

man, now when i program in turing, i keep on puting semicolons at the end of each line...

[rizzix]

krishon wrote:

yah...java and c++ are interchangable, once you know one, it won't be too hard to switch to another

got to agree on that, but don't get too carried away with that illusion. I too thought they were the same, in fact exactly the same, except for a few features added and a few removed. But i was wrong.

After i learnt c++, i realized there is a slight difference that makes programming c++ a bit uncomfortable after your used to java. In other words there are some things in java that appear to behave just as is, in c++ at first sight, but taking a closer look at the situation there is a difference.

One main factor for this is garbage collection (got to miss that feature in c++), because of GC (garbage collection) you don't have to worry about chain method call that return a new object in java, but in c++ it is ideal to destroy all new objects (objects created on the heap). This is one of the ways flexibility is restricted in c++. It's not much but once ur used to it, you feel it.