My advice on implementing stuff in C:
My advice on implementing stuff in C:
Posted Oct 16, 2010 1:25 UTC (Sat) by dskoll (subscriber, #1630)In reply to: My advice on implementing stuff in C: by dlang
Parent article: Russell: On C Library Implementation
what language 'learned the lessons of C++' and is so clearly superior?
C++ is "good enough" for many purposes, and it's certainly possible to write decent C++. The problem is that you have to restrict yourself to a subset of the language and have a very disciplined programming team with strict style guidelines.
Once you start going mad with esoteric C++ features (or even not-so-esoteric ones like templates), you code can become unreadable and unmaintainable.
Too bad Objective-C didn't catch on more than C++. I think it is a much better language if your goal is "C with objects".
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