Re: C23 thoughts and opinions

On 01/06/2024 14:28, David Brown wrote:

On 01/06/2024 01:34, Lynn McGuire wrote:

On 5/26/2024 6:23 AM, Bonita Montero wrote:

Am 26.05.2024 um 09:13 schrieb jak:
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About this I only agree partially because it depends a lot on the
context in which it is used. Moreover, I would not know how to indicate
an optimal programming language for all seasons.

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C++ is in almost any case the better C.
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What you describe is the greatest inconvenience of c++. To make only one
example, when they decided to rewrite the FB platform to accelerate it,
they thought of migrating from php to c++ and they had a collapse of the
staff suitable for work, so they thought of relying a compiler that
translated the php into c++ and many of the new languages were born to
try to remedy hits complexity.

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C++ is the wrong language for web applications.
I like Java more for that.

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C++ is the wrong language for real time apps.  No memory allocation allowed.
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 I use C++ for real-time apps.  You don't have to have dynamic memory allocation just because you are writing in C++ !
 

I use C++ because I like vectors (arrays) that you don't have to allocate or pass length parameters about with, I like strings which you can pass about (though to actually use the contents you need to covert to char *, otherwuse it is hopeless), and I like objects that you don't have to destroy explicitly, and can assign easily, and have good facilitiesfor private data.. Occasionally I need a hash table or a balanced binary tree, and again C++ makes it easy, though I have of course rolled my own.
I've spent the last ten years working mainly with C++, and only very occasionally writing code for professional purposes in C, though all my hobby programming is in C. I have recently had to stop work, and after a course of chemo which knocked me back, I am now feeling the benefit, and the cancer has shrunk and is less painful, and I've been full time on C and highly productive, and some really exciting things are happening with the Baby X resource compiler.
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