On Mon, Dec 8, 2008 at 2:08 PM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > so you have an opinion on the language and Java is the preferred? > I have no preferred language. But C++ is not a language suitable for any use what so ever. It did at one point serve the purpose of introducing Object Oriented Programming to the masses. But it is not a language to use unless you are already fluent in it. C++ was OO while using the constructs of C. C is a great language which gave all the rope you needed to hang youself ( This IS a plus). But C++ took away the strengths of C and C was too constraining to make good OO.
I have seen millions of lines of C++ code from thousands of different orginizations and all of it bad. Bad not because of the programs but bad in that the language tried to serve two masters, OO and low level manipulation. And neither could be served well. Choose C, Perl, Java, Groove, Ruby, Python, PHP, REXX, Lisp even COBOL but not C++
