xianc78 @xianc78@gameliberty.club

@ademan @lanodan @wilmhit
>I haven’t done any Win32 since before the 64 bit era, but during the 32 bit era DWORD meant 32 bit word, once upon a time in the 16 bit era it did mean double word.

Yeah that's what they told us and it's still the case today.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/winprog/windows-data-types

@lanodan @wilmhit
>Depends on how you learn C++ I guess but usually I would say it's horribly false, C++ is a very different beast than C.
It's quite like saying that a Lion and a Cat are the same animals.

They briefly touched the key differences between C++ and C in our Operating Systems class. Also, in our C++ class we did go over some stuff like how to convert C strings to string objects in C++.

@lanodan @wilmhit We only have two language specific classes: Java and C++. Most of the other classes do stuff in Java. Our Architecture and Operating System classes do go into MIPS Assembly and C respectively, but they don't go in depth.

The only assembly we learn in the Architecture class is just rewriting simple C programs (mostly just snippets of conditional statements, looping, and arithmetic expressions) into Assembly, not writing actual programs. It was mainly to teach how opcodes work and how the CPU interprets them.

The operating systems class had us writing simple C programs to learn basic Windows API functions. We didn't exactly learn C because you pretty much already know C when you learn C++. It's actually pretty confusing because Microsoft likes to change the names of C data types with their own terminology like "DWORD" referring to an unsigned 32 bit integer.

We did briefly touched SML in our Programming Languages class but that just to teach us about other paradigms. For Computer Algebra, we learned MATLAB. And for databases we obviously used SQL. All other classes use Java. Sometimes, a project will give us the choice between C++ or Java but everyone goes with Java because we barely touched C++.

@wilmhit @lanodan I would agree but the lack of certain shit makes it annoying, but that might be because I have prior programming experience.

@Mogami I'm Hoppean so I agree with physical removal.

@lanodan I'm not the biggest Java expert, so I don't exactly know. But as someone who has experience in both Java and C#, I can safely say that Microsoft did make a superior Java.

Here is a list of shit that's still not in Java but is in C#:
* Plain data structs
* Indexes for list and string objects (you still have to access each element through a method call)
* Pointers
* Exponential operator
* A simple static object for stdin (In C# all I have to do is call Console.ReadLine(); in Java I have to declare a Scanner object)
* Optional arguments