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From: Martin <martin.dowie@btopenworld.com>
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Subject: Re: What's wrong with C++?
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On Feb 17, 3:30=A0pm, Hyman Rosen <hyro...@mail.com> wrote:
> On 2/16/2011 10:41 PM, Mike Sieweke wrote:
>
> > You should read Ian Joyner's critique:
> >http://www.zechweb.de/Joyners_cpp_critique/
>
> "C++ is bad because it isn't Eiffel."
>
> > You should also read the C++ FQA (frequently questioned answers)
> > by Yossi Kreinin:
> >http://www.yosefk.com/c++fqa/index.html
>
> "C++ is bad because it isn't Java."
>
> > Do a Google search for "dark side of C++" and you'll find
> > even more. =A0This one seems especially interesting:
> >http://port70.net/~nsz/16_c++.html
>
> "C++ is bad because it's C" (OK, not entirely, but I wanted
> to keep up the pattern :-) Actually, this last one has:
>
> =A0 =A0 =A0Paul Graham (2001)
> =A0 =A0 =A0[..] Historically, languages designed for other people to
> =A0 =A0 =A0use have been bad: Cobol, PL/I, Pascal, Ada, C++. The good
> =A0 =A0 =A0languages have been those that were designed for their own
> =A0 =A0 =A0creators: C, Perl, Smalltalk, Lisp. [..]


Sometimes though there is something better than opinion as to what
language produces more reliable systems...

...but I couldn't possibly comment on what language usually comes out
better! ;-)

-- Martin