On Monday, 5 February 2018 at 16:03:44 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad
wrote:
On Monday, 5 February 2018 at 12:23:58 UTC, psychoticRabbit
wrote:
No. C++ is primarliy about higher order abstractions. That's
why it came about.
Without the need for those higher order abstractions, C is
just fine - no need for C++
Actually, many programmers switched to C++ in the 90s just to
get function overloads and inlining without macros.
Not me. I refused (during the 90's) to use C++ for anything ;-)
(my housemate loved C++ though - to this day, I still don't know
why..)
If you think C is just fine then I'm not sure why you are
interested in D.
Cause D is interesting (too)... do I have to choose only one
language??
I have my own IDE - which I wrote, and i can switch between
(currently) 7 different languages - with just a single click of
my mouse button. I'll keep adding more languages that interest me.
The benefits of C, come from C - and only C (and some good
compiler writers)
Not sure what you mean by that.
I mean C++ was implemented upon the foundation of C - as such,
C++ was able to take advantage of what that foundation offered.
There is little overhead by using C++ over C if you set your
project up for that. The only benefits with C these days is
portability.
(depends on what 'many' means) - There certinaly are
'numerous' (what ever that means) projects trying to create a
better c - which contradicts your assertion.
Which ones are you thinking of?
I looked at several recently - I can't recall them all .. but
for starters..
(C2 -- interestingly this seems a lot like D)
http://c2lang.org/site/
(CheckedC - a Microsoft Research Project to 'extend' C)
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/project/checked-c/
