Re: C++ on the Down Slope?

[Maciej Sobczak <see.my.homepage@gmail.com>]

On Jan 11, 11:29 am, "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mail...@dmitry-kazakov.de>
wrote:

> The crowd choosing C# now would likely chose C++ before. Both respond to
> the same attitude to programming.

Nonsense.

C# is "Java done right by Microsoft" (whatever "right" means here) and
its main points of attraction are strong emphasis on OO, reference-
semantics and garbage collection.
Interestingly, Java and C# are so much similar to each other that you
can often just take a Java project and literally recode it line-to-
line into C#. In many cases even the standard library functions are
the same and differ only in casing.
I've seen it happen, it's not a joke.

C++ is very much opposed to these two with its value-semantics, no
push towards OO and no garbage collection. In this regard C++ is much
closer to Ada than to Java/C#.

I understand that you wish to see C++ as your enemy, but please create
another enemy category for it and don't mix it with C#. Or Java.

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Maciej Sobczak * http://www.msobczak.com * http://www.inspirel.com