>> Whether I will fix these issues or move on to another project remains to
>> be seen. Originally my goal was to write the program in Java (which is
>> object-oriented), and then have a go at translating it to C++. (Without
>> the GUI, because I have no idea how to do GUI programming in C++, and it
>> sounds highly non-trivial.) But actually, it looks like it's going to be
>> impossible, because it fundamentally /requires/ abstract classes, which
>> are hard in C++. So probably another Java project then...
>
> Abstract classes hard in C++? That's news to me. Last time I checked
> they were quite trivial

> Did I miss anything?

...or rather, to /use/ run-time polymorphism, you need to do manual 
memory management, and manual memory management is infamously hard.

> If you're using MS Visual Studio (or any other sane contemporary C++
> IDE), GUI programming is quite easy as well; after all, you have a GUI
> builder included.

Yeah, but I'm told programming the Win32 APIs directly is incredibly 
hard. Even if you've got an IDE to generate some of the code for you, I 
rather suspect that without a deep understanding for how it works, 
you'll never be able to fill in the empty bits where your application 
goes...

> (Writing a /portable/ GUI in C++ is an entirely
> different matter of course, and the beginners' how-to boils down to one
> and a half words: "Don't.")

This is true of /most/ programming languages that compile to native 
code, to be fair. ;-)

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