[article] Language Design Deal Breakers

[Paulo Pinto]

Am 26.05.2013 05:27, schrieb Peter Williams:
> On 26/05/13 11:59, Nick Sabalausky wrote:

>> Forget waiting for a huge improvement, I'd have been happy to
>> ditch C++ even for a small improvement. C++ is such a pain IMO that
>> using it has about as much inertia as ice skates on concrete.
>
> I found shifting from C++ to C an improvement.  (Yes, I learnt C++
> before I learnt C.)  I should mention that this was back in the mid 90s
> and C++ may have improved since then :-).
>
> Peter

After being a Turbo Pascal heavy user, C always felt backwards to me 
with its weak types, lack of proper strings, modules and namespaces.

Even with its warts C++ offers a more cosy environment in terms of 
strong typing, modularity and abstractions to use, at least to me.

I am a strong supporter of Microsoft's decision to dump C from their 
tooling. Only with such actions can a system programming language be 
eventually replaced.


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Paulo