Re: Faulty languages and Liability

[Kilgallen@SpamCop.net (Larry Kilgallen)]

In article <3D0DF19E.5010805@mail.com>, Hyman Rosen <hyrosen@mail.com> writes:
> Larry Kilgallen wrote:
>> There is a serious question in my mind whether everyone using C* has
>> done so based on thorough reasoning.
> 
> I can't speak for anyone else, but I use C++ because I love it.

Nobody who reads your posts doubts that about you.  I am sure there are
others in a similar position.  But I suspect there are still others with
much less basis for their decision.  Even some who make the decision with
_no_ technical background (managers).

> I am at my current job because I answered an ad which was looking
> for expert C++ programmers, and it sounded (and is) exactly like
> what I wanted. I find the combination of multiple inheritance,
> virtual functions, and automatically instantiated templates to
> result in remarkably concise, expressive, efficient, and typesafe
> code which is moreover a lot of fun to write. It more than makes
> up for the warped C-legacy syntax.

C++ is bound to be less attractive to those of us not from a C background.