C++ is actually not that bad. Can't compare it to C, but nothing compares to C... I think the bad reputation it got (and still has) is from Microsoft's visual studio IDE (that was and still is horrible) A lot of good applications are written in C++, but many bad ones as well.
Sorry for swearing in the church, but I'm pulling out PHP as an example. Easy on beginners, the fat that you can jump in and out of PHP mode helps too. It attracts a lot of beginner developers, and most of them write bad code. It does not make the language a bad language, in fact PHP5 is pretty good, but it means that there is a lot of bad code out there, but then we have gems like MediaWiki and Drupal that is really good software. You can write bad code in any language, and many languages get a bad reputation because a lot of bad code is written in it. The real test is not how bad code you can write, but the limit for how good code you can write without jumping trough (too manny) hoops. On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 12:34 PM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro <l...@geek-central.gen.new_zealand> wrote: > In message <roy-6bcfa7.22564104082...@news.panix.com>, Roy Smith wrote: > > > C++, for all its flaws, had one powerful feature which made it very > > popular. It is a superset of C. > > Actually, it never was. > -- > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list > -- ----------Desktop Browser, Google Apps --------- Christoffer Viken / CVi i=0 str="kI4dJMtXAv0m3cUiPKx8H" while i<=20: if i%3 and not i%4: print str[i], i=i+1
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