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reality_czech | 7 years ago

"Post-modern" C++? Finally someone admits that the language was all a huge prank.

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Koshkin|7 years ago

C++ is more like a drug - having used it makes it impossible to go back to C.

kazinator|7 years ago

It is absolutely possible. I did C++ development as a regular job years ago, now I'm coding in C (for that type of coding).

What will get you off the C++ drug easily is Lisp.

Once I discovered Lisp, C++ had no place in my "personal spectrum" any more, but C (including the C-like subset of C++) still did. Well, it wasn't so sudden, mind you. More like: the more Lisp I knew, the less interest I had in C++.

(Idiotic lambda implementations and whatnot will not woo me back, sorry.)

pjmlp|7 years ago

Safer system programming languages with good type systems are like a drug that make it impossible to go back to C.

My first drug was Turbo Pascal, from 4.0 all the way to TPW 1.5.

Naturally the only thing C had going for it was being a language with an OS. As in regard to its features it was already unatractive in 1990 for me.

Thankfully in 1993, C++ was already an option that also came with an OS, as it became adopted by OS vendors in their SDKs.

de_watcher|7 years ago

Try not to flood the topic with empty comments.