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On the bill gates biography it says "Gates developed a version of the programming language BASIC for the first microcomputer" but did he use this language to make windows?

Hello everyone, I just started to learn how to program in Ruby. It is a pretty cool language. You can get ruby from [url="http://www.ruby-lang.org"]www.ruby-lang.org[/url]. You can see my code snippets on making widgets using fxRuby (fxRuby is downloaded seperatly from ruby, unless you get the one click installer, which installs …

My friend who is a VB6 programmer is doing a benchmark against C and the VB is running faster than the C but we know this isn't a reliable benchmark Could you look at our benchmarks and tell us any thing that might be causing this. MINGW [code] #include <stdio.h> …

On my forum I go to we were talking about how some peoples C++ hellowords were 10x larger than the C version.On my GCC and G++ there is no difference but on some of theirs there is a huge one.If any of you wouldn't mind could you compile C [code= …

For a program I'm writing I only need two digits past the decimal.I was a c programmer and the way I would have done this was [code] printf("%2f",variable); [/code] Is there anything like this in cout?

Man I got SVN up and I love it :) Does anyone else here use SVN for their projects?

Is this the right way to use fgets when its for non file input. [code=C] #include<stdio.h> int main() { char userinput[256]; printf("Enter a string:"); fgets(userinput,256,stdin); printf("%s",userinput); return 0; } [/code]

I have trying C and so far it's gone great but this has been driving me mad today. I could swear scanf worked earlier but its crashing my programs? I know you get this problem when you forget the pointer thing & but this should work [code] #include<stdio.h> int main() …

I'm taking an Operating Systems course in which I need to write some really in depth programs (more specifically, along the lines of a terminal based program which implements many system level unix-like commands). However, the catch is that this must be written in straight C, which I have no …

Between NASM and FASM which one would you pick? And I pretty new to ASM but I think the Intel style looks better so I think that rules GNU out unless they have a Intel version syntax.

For a while I have read stuff on GNU I don't agree with their views on copyrights.Is there any BSD like groups like GNU that are more about open source then anti copyrights. I like the BSD license for stuff better.

I like open source but sometimes I don't agree with gnu and all the rules you have to follow when you use it for your things.Is there one doesn't have as many rules that makes you have to make everything open source with it?This is for a pen and paper …

I started learning C++ as my first language. But some of the OOP stuff gives me trouble. I know C is a widely used language like C++ and has about the same syntax but isn't OOP.I have tried some basic C so i have not got parts that are different …

Hello I am newish to proggraming in c++ and hope to learn to proggram some game's. From the book i have it is more or less buisnesslike is there a good book to point me in the right direction for game programing

I don't know if this too OT but so many people ask.I just got Sam's C++ in 21 days and it's great.Don't let the name fool you because the book is huge and I don't think I'll finish it in 21 days;). This is the best C++ book I have …

I may, but havn't mad a decision yet.:confused:

I'm a learning C++ programmer but one of my friends is a VB 6 programmer.He wants to go to vb.net but it makes him mad because it's so different from VB 6.Could someone please tell me any good tutorials for VB 6 to VB.net programmers.;)

Hi I'm a new C++ programmer and this site has a lot great info. It's my new homepage:cheesy: I just wanted to say hello to everyone and thanks for all the help.

Should I use the codeblocks IDE with MinGW or Dev C++ IDE with MinGW??? I'm only a beginner C++ programmer and I don't like VC++ express because of installing the platform SDK:eek: