Re: If you want to learn C++
Peter Nachtwey said:
If you want to do windows progamming then buy a standard version of VC.NET. It costs about $109 US list price. (I don't do windows progamming, I consider it fluff.)
I don't do windows programming.
I don't do windows programming.
I don't do windows programming.
I don't do windows programming.
I don't do windows programming.
I don't do windows programming.
I don't do windows programming.
Something came up. Now I will have to learn. I just got VC++.net standard edition. After I get it running one of our windows programmers will polish it off.
I don't do windows programming.
I don't do windows programming, yet.
I don't do windows programming, yet.
I don't do windows programming, yet.
I don't do windows programming, yet.
I don't do windows programming, yet.
I don't do windows programming, yet.
It is a mental thing. Have I told you guys how much I hate Microsoft Windows? How much enthusiam do you have for programming things you hate? Will I be assimilated?
BTW, we supply custom loadable ( blocks written in Borland C ) with our Modicon 984 compatible product. We had to. When we first started making the motion modules, Modicon only did BCD math. They didn't have signed numbers or numbers over 9999. How stupid, we were shocked that anyone would take a pefectly good micro controller and go out of their way to cripple it. Anyway we wrote signed and unsigned binary add subtract multiply divide and array indexing routines that made using our module easier. Modicon users downloaded our custom loadables just to get the math capabilities.
About two years later Modicon added the add and subtract 16 functions.
I think C programs in a PLC is a bad idea. C is pointers that can point anywhere. It is easy to crash the PLC. I know. We did it enough times getting our custom loadable to run. Another reason to leave C out of PLCs is that one can't debug routines by single stepping or going to a break point.