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Re: building (porting) c++ project w/ deprecated features -- did I do this right?
On Tue, Apr 04, 2006 at 03:26:52PM +0000, Nate Thern wrote:
>Eric Blake <ericblake <at> comcast.net> writes:
>> You are
>> better off teaching your application about modern C++, and sending those
>> patches back upstream to the "C Scripting Language" project.
>Agreed. I'm just an engineer and self-taught C programmer who regularly
>compiles his own stuff on cygwin when it's not in the standard distribution.
>I'm usually pretty successful at resolving problems, but this CSL build sucked
>me into a downward spiral of little fixes that never did end up working.
>
>If I take the big picture approach, I will have a lot to learn. I'm strictly a
>K&R C guy, I don't know or do etags, autoconf, gdb, etc. I'm probably long
>overdue to learn some of these tools. If I take this on, what resources are
>there to help me learn to code in the gnu style, and learn modern C++? (the
>best my library has is Stroustrup, 1997)
google is your best resource for learning things like this.
Everything else is off-topic for this mailing list. This isn't a list designed
to help bring people's knowledge into the late 20th centry.
cgf
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