Quoth Ilya Khayutin on Fri, Jul 21, 2000:
> >From this thread I got the impression that most people
> here think that C++ is still that language which has
> no standart, used by small groups of people and is
> realy useless. Well guys... IT IS NOT THE 80s
> ANYMORE!!!
Pity.
> It is year 2000 and C++ is a standartized
> language
Yeah right.
> which is used by a VERY large amount of
> people.
Same large amount of people who choose Windows and eat in
McDonald's.
> The GNU compiler, g++, supports *_well_* 99.9%
> of the standard C++
Some C++ professional say otherwise, but I'm not one, so I won't
comment on this.
> Also, exprience has proven that using an OO design for
> large software packages is MUCH more efficient than
> plain function based design.
C++ is an object-oriented programming language? Gimme a break.
> Someone said that because gtk+ uses its own
> implementation of an OO architecture in plain C, there
> is no reason to it to use C++. WHAT???
Nothing. People wrote object oriented code in C long before C++
was born. Object orientation is a function of design, not
language. You can write object-oriented assembly, and you can
write C++ with gotos.
> There is a big diffrence between a C++
> class and a C struct: PRIVELEGE CONTROL!!
So? You can't _really_ hide what's inside. You always open your
header files. Anyone can just insert "public:" into the header
file and do whatever they bloody want.
What about this: C is a small simple elegant language. It's
relatively easy to learn. There are lots of people who actually
know all of C by heart.
C++ is a bloated pig which just grew into existance. It has
helluva lot of features. There are very few people who actually
know all of C++. Everybody knows some subset, and the problem is
that everybody knows a different subset of the language.
The biggest mistake in design of C++ was to base it on C.
> It makes the code MUCH less buggy.
Yeah right. There was some programmer that reported that in his
experience C++ programs were almost always bigger and almost
always needed longer time to write than functionally equivalent C
programs.
Who told you all this stuff? Your programming language teacher?
Vadik.
--
If you think C++ is not overly complicated, just what is a protected
abstract virtual base pure virtual private destructor, and when
was the last time you needed one?
-- Tom Cargill, C++ Journal, Fall 1990.
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