On 21/10/2013 07:44, Peter Cacioppi wrote:
I've written a fair bit of code in pure C, C++, C#, Java and now getting there
in Python.
The difference between C# and Java is fairly minor.
The others have large and significant differences between them. Garbage
collectors or not is huge. Exceptions or not is huge. Dynamic or static typing
is huge. Language support for polymorphism or not is huge.
C code invokes a very meaningful overhead of memory management. The task of
insuring that memory doesn't leak here is far larger than in garbage collected
languages, and much more difficult than C++ (which can guarantee stack based
destruction).
This is just one language feature. I could go on and on. The idea that the
differences between these languages is just syntactic sugar and aesthetics is
so profoundly misguided that I can only assume that this misconception was
proposed as a bizarre form of trolling.
As my crystal ball is once again being mended, would you please be kind
enough to tell all of us who and exactly what you're replying to.
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