Re: Top 10 most common hard skills listed on resumes...

Am 27.08.2024 um 09:37 schrieb David Brown:

But it is also fair to say that abstractions are less than you might see on "big" systems.  For systems programming, there is more concern about the efficiency of the results, ...

C++ is efficient and abstract in one.

We very rarely see exceptions in this field, but OOP is certainly common now.

You have to accept exceptions with C++ since there are a lot of places
where C++ throws a bad_alloc or system_error.

Classes with non-virtual inheritance are basically cost-free, and  provide
structure, safety, encapsulation and flexibility.  Virtual functions have
overhead, ...

The virtual function overhead isn't notwworthy and not much more over
manual dispatch.

But you certainly can use a range of abstractions in C programming too.

C doesn't supply features to have abstractions like in C++.

I don't think BM's posts are generally good or clear examples of uses
of C++. And I don't think continuously posting "C++ would be ten times easier" in c.l.c is helpful to anyone.

C is just too much work.