SymmetryGroup8 said:

You worked on the Phoenix Mars Lander? COOL!

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phi1618 said:

You could also try C++. It's popular, but in some ways it's harder to learn than Java or C#. It allows you to use pointers (IMO these should be avoided in most code).

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By default, C++ doesn't have garbage collection, meaning that you have to free memory manually using the delete opperator.

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You can use libgc to avoid memory-management related errors.

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Basically, C++ forces you to worry about details unrelated to the code you're trying to write.

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std::string sMyString("Some string for testing!");
std::string::iterator it;
for (it = sMyString.begin(); it != sMyString.end(); ++it)
{
    *it = SwapCase(*it);
}
// Produces "sOME STRING FOR TESTING!" assuming SwapCase will change case of a character

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Really, the language you choose isn't nearly as important as getting started and doing some stuff.

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This is the best advice in here and basically all I am trying to say

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std::string sMyString("Some string for testing!");
std::string::iterator it;
for (it = sMyString.begin(); it != sMyString.end(); ++it)
{
*it = SwapCase(*it);
}
// Produces "sOME STRING FOR TESTING!" assuming SwapCase will change case of a character

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creating a string, allocating its memory, filling it, iterating over each character, swapping the case of the character, and deallocating memory (through the destructor of std::basic_str).

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phi1618 said:

Actually, that TextReader stuff is irrelavent - I'm sure you can do exactly the same thing in C++, and probably with no more lines of code.

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