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.
--
Paulo
