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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 2012-01-08 19:27

>>65
Most high level languages are a superset of C-based. It is hard to find high level language that doesn't have some equivalent to the function call stack.
Cactus stacks, segmented stacks, stack implemented as a linked list of activation records instead of a contiguous block of memory, and even CPS exist today.
C's (most) calling conventions are not suitable for tail calling (and, thus, CPS), multiple arity functions, and Lisp-style varargs (put everything in a list, which is the same as Python's).
Implementations must either jump through several hoops to get C interop, or maintain two stacks (the C stack, and its stack), or rape the C stack and use that.

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