Linked by Roberto J. Dohnert on Wed 28th Jul 2004 17:23 UTC
Most of us that work in the IT industry have been around for a long time. We started out in our parents basement writing code in some BASIC environment, ussually Commodore BASIC or QBASIC. Do you remember how thrilling it was? Your first program and it was something extremely basic but the point was it worked. Some of us got hooked right away and kept trying to solve problems and added more and more pushing the capabilities of whatever language we used. As we got older the environments progressed and the programming tools progressed and got more complicated.
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I think C++ is a suitable language for hobbyists. It just depends on your hobby. I would recommend C++ for use in games or 3d graphics hobby development. First, most of the APIs for games and graphics are in C or C++. Second, the performance of C++ and optimization possibilities are a good reason to choose C++ for this type of hobby. If you are doing cross-platform C++ development, check out Borland's free cross-platform C++ IDE, C++BuilderX Personal. It supports a number of compilers and debuggers, including Borland, GCC, (Microsoft, Intel, Sun in the pay for editions) etc. unlike the Eclipse C++ which at this time only supports GCC. You can download it here: http://www.borland.com/products/downloads/download_cbuilderx.html#