I am personally partial to C. C is just at the right level of abstraction for me (low-level), whereas C++ is a bit too abstract. I'm definitely not saying that C++ is the devil, because I love it. I'm also saying that C is alot easier to learn than C++ as C isn't as big of a language as C++. I began with C++, and thought it was a great language for a beginner. After awhile I moved to learning C, which I thought was incredible because of how low-level it was compared to C++. People will also say that C++ is as fast as C, which I'm sure if programmed by a C++ expert it would be. However, I have done a simple timing test for C and C++ console output functions that proves C is faster than C++ in the sense of those two functions, which does not necessarily determine the overall speed of the two languages. I'm basically saying that I tested two different output functions (puts() and cout), and the C function puts() left cout in the dust. This does NOT mean, however, that all C code is faster than C++, I'm simply stating my findings from one test with two functions.


EDIT: And VC++ is NOT drag and drop. It is a fully featured software development environment.

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