On Friday, January 30, 2015 at 5:51:38 PM UTC-5, Gregory Ewing wrote: > Michael Torrie wrote: > > On 01/30/2015 10:31 AM, Rustom Mody wrote: > > > >>And what about the grey area between lightweight and heavyweight? > > > > That's what the smart pointers are for. > > I'd say it's what higher-level languages are for. :-) > > I'm completely convinced nowadays that there is > *no* use case for C++. If you need to program the > bare metal, use C. For anything more complicated, > use a language that has proper memory-management > abstractions built in.
Lots of people are using C++ to build packages for statistical programming language R, using the package Rcpp. It has been possible to build such packages for R and S using Fortran and C since the beginning, and many have done so, but the wide usage of Rcpp suggests that there are advantages to using C++. C++ is still the primary language used by financial derivatives quants. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
