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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 2012-01-11 12:51

>>371
Just remember: when blindly criticizing C++ operators, take a look around. Look at Haskell operators, for example.
Haskell operators work, unlike C++'s. They don't need to be associated with a class, and they don't need friends to write cout << "Hax" << " my " << "anus";.
That's because they're simply variables, they're not supposed to be a -> b -> c functions, for some a, b, c.
(<<) :: Handle -> [Char] -> IO ()
(<<) = hPutStrLn
cout = stdout
endl = "\n"
main = cout << ("Hax" ++ " my " ++ "anus" ++ endl)

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