Why are these so often grouped together? I don't want ``C/C++'', I want C. It's a different language. Why not ``Java/C#'' or ``JavaScript/ActionScript''?
It's bad enough that it's impossible to google for C materials without getting C++ materials, but bundling them together like this is dumb, even if one was originally a superset of the other.
Just to settle this once and for all, I emailed Bjarne Stroustrup about this, and although he wont admit I was right, I think I proved his aversion to C/C++ for the nonsense that it is http://s13.postimage.org/ldzcwp093/bjarne2.png
>>7
He's right. C is nothing like C++. A programmer who knows C and has never touched C++ will be extremely unsuited to work on a C++ project. They are just very different languages.
>>8
you obviously havent done any embedded bare metal programming on tiny hardware. I have (homebrew GBA) and you wont find anyone who will touch C++ with a ten foot pole for that kind of programming
>>10
Read the post again. 2012
Game Boys aren't relevant anymore.
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>>11
How so? Microcontrollers are usually written in C, if not in BASIC, Pascal or ``Ladder logic''. Its even more important to avoid assembler in an environment like that because the single sourcing nature of the micro market.
rms doesnt like C++ http://stallman.org/stallman-computing.html The programming languages I use are Lisp and C. They are also my favorite languages. By contrast, I find C++ quite ugly.
I honestly cant think of any famous programmer who likes C++, its a language we shouldnt have to use anymore now that we have alternatives like D and Go