In Ur they had neither C nor C++.
Come to think of it they didn't have + either, they used other characters entirely for writing.

wrong forum. This is the C++ forum, not the C+= forum!

yah, Turbo Pascal never adhered to the established standards for C++ :)

And no, we're not here to do your homework for you...
And I will NOT open zipfiles presented to me by total strangers, as such usually contain trojans and other nasties I certainly don't want on my...

he was solving a problem in the way he understood it from the original requirements which were incomplete and unclear (though he didn't see them as such apparently so he didn't consider the later...

no, endl should be the standard way to do things.
\n is not portable, it's a throwback to C.

And you expect an unbiassed answer here?

VB isn't really a programming language at all, it's a rapid prototyping tool for user interfaces.
Anyone using it for more than that is asking for...

IMO you should start people by teaching them the right way to do things, rather than teaching them a quick hack now and later trying to explain that they were taught to do things incorrectly because...

Starting with VB will only teach poor practice, don't do it.
Java is a better option, but will take you as long to master as does C++.
C# seems to be a slightly smaller language to learn.

What...

Best current free compiler/editor for Windows is Microsoft Visual C++ Express linked with the Windows 2003 Platform SDK.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/express/visualc/

More standards...

he does need the PSDK, as the versions shipped with VC6 are so far outdated that VC2005 will not work with them.
VC2005 requires the latest version of the PSDK.

I don't use MFC ;)
I've done it using ObjectWindows though.
Can't say it was much harder than using Java...

But then I specialise in serverside background processes and web applications which...

"versatile" language like Pascal?
Don't make me laugh. Quite obviously you have no idea what you're talking about if you think C++ is not versatile.
If anything the main fault to be found in C++ is...

Unix is written for about 90% in C, the rest is a mix of ASM and mainly shellscripts.

As Alex says, you could create an OS in which the core consists of a JVM and the entire rest is in fact...

They did. It took them 3 years to write that program, then 5 minutes to create the game using it ;)

There's use for Java and C++ both, there's even use for Cobol and PL/1.
Neither is perfect,...