Christopher Smith wrote:
C++, while retaining nearly complete compatibility with C, manages to
provide mechanisms to avoid or mitigate most of C's
limitations/problems.
Except for being C, of course. :-)
C++ would actually be pretty nice once you got past the syntax, except
for one thing. It doesn't protect you from your own mistakes. You can
stop pretty much any error from crashing your code, except for the
mistakes in the program.
However, when you have a couple hundred machines running your code 24x7,
and they all start paging you when something breaks, it's far far better
to have a mechanism that can catch unexpected behavior and fix it than
it is to rely on not having any unexpected behavior to start with.
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He studied at the Shao Linux Temple.
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