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Sobotka: Why GIMP is inadequateSobotka: Why GIMP is inadequatePosted Jan 12, 2011 21:53 UTC (Wed) by HelloWorld (guest, #56129)In reply to: Sobotka: Why GIMP is inadequate by bug1 Parent article: Sobotka: Why GIMP is inadequate
However, the point i was trying to make in my original post is that complexity doesnt come from language, it comes from design. If you have a really good design for a project, it should be just as easy for a C programmer to implement that design in C, as it would be for a C++ programmer to implement it in C++. This is just nonsense. The whole point of a programming language is to give you the means to express things more easily. The converse of your argument is essentially that we shouldn't have bothered with programming languages in the first place, since, given the right design, we might as well implement it in assembly language. An object-oriented design with heavy use of inheritance, virtual function calls etc. will be much cleaner, terser and simpler in C++ than in C.
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Sobotka: Why GIMP is inadequate Posted Jan 13, 2011 16:11 UTC (Thu) by mgedmin (subscriber, #34497) [Link]
Why not go all the way and recommend something like Python then? *Much* cleaner, terser and simpler than C++.
(Of course there's a cost -- larger memory usage, slower running speed. Just like C++ has costs that C doesn't have -- gotchas in the language design, longer compilation times, increased memory usage, slower application startup due to eager linking overhead for vtables, etc.)
Sobotka: Why GIMP is inadequate Posted Jan 13, 2011 17:27 UTC (Thu) by HelloWorld (guest, #56129) [Link]
It's all about tradeoffs. Python is slow and uses more memory. I also dislike dynamic typing, and it's easier to use a C library in a C++ program than in Python. If these aren't problems for you - great, use Python.
If instead you're looking for a programming language that offers both flexibility and suitability for systems programming (perhaps even in the embedded world), then C++ is in my opinion a reasonable option.
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