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C++ hatred

Name: Anonymous 2012-01-08 12:26

Why is C++ hated so much here in /prog/? Many good software are written in C++.

I'm aware that there are some problems in the language and it is considered "hard" to master it, but why do so many people hate it? What harm has it done?

Software can be written much quicker when using some scripting languages like Python. Software can be writte slightly quicker when using some managed language like Java. But when using those languages, the resulting program will require more resources to run. So there is place for C++.

For example, I bet the web browser of 99% people browsing /prog/ is written in C++. It's not perfect language, but it is the best language for complex program with relatively small CPU and RAM requirements.

Name: Anonymous 2012-01-10 11:58

>>102
I quoted:
- Alan Kay, inventor of Smalltalk, object-oriented programming and colaborator on the first GUIs at Xerox
- Bertrand Meyer, inventor of Eiffel
- Richard A. O'Keefe, computer scientist author of researching and books on logical programming and Prolog
- Niklaus Wirth, inventor of Pascal and Modula/Modula-2 languages.
- Donald Knuth. What should I say about this man? He've won a fucking Turing Award and he's written The Art Of Computer Programming. I bet you don't even know this book existed.
- Linus Torvalds, creator of the Linux kernel and git.

Maybe you didn't know these people or what they've done. But you should at least listen to what these people have to say. Because they have actually archieved something in computer science and engineering.

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