Future of c++

[wkaras]

Jack Klein wrote:
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Remember language
comparisons are OT here, except perhaps between C++ and C.

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Why is that? Also, how does one become the moderator of
an unmoderated newsgroup, especially when there is
already a moderated version of that newgroup?

Anybody, is there a web-based newsreader that allows one to
filter certain posters? That way, you can avoid seeing what
you don't like, and I can avoid seeing you not like it.

 

[Phlip]

Jack Klein wrote:
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Why is that?

Obviously: Because some other language might win!!

;-)

 

[Yan]

IMHO it's the other way around - knowing C++ will help you learn C# or
Java just as knowing how to drive a big trailer will help you learn to
drive a small economy car.

 

[REH]

Obviously: Because some other language might win!!

;-)

If you dislike C++ so much, why do you even bother subscribing to this
news group?

REH

 

[Phlip]

If you dislike C++ so much, why do you even bother subscribing to this
news group?

I give C++ tough love.

The joke there is more subtle. If Klein were worried C++ might lose, he
might declare comparisons off topic. Get it?

 

[REH]

I give C++ tough love.

The joke there is more subtle. If Klein were worried C++ might lose, he
might declare comparisons off topic. Get it?

I'm not trying to argue with you, and I doubt Mr. Klein's issue is C++
losing a (silly) battle with C. I was just truly curious as to why you
frequent a newsgroup devoted to a language you so obviously hate.

REH

 

[Phlip]

I'm not trying to argue with you, and I doubt Mr. Klein's issue is C++
losing a (silly) battle with C. I was just truly curious as to why you
frequent a newsgroup devoted to a language you so obviously hate.

I don't hate it. Part of learning C++ is learning its risks, traps, and
abuses, and learning when not to use it.

Moreso than other languages... ;-)

 

[Josh Falter]

To answer the original question, they are in 2 very different arenas.
C++ is not going anywhere as far as serious desktop developement is
concerned. Vista is being written in C/C++. Any real desktop app is
written in C++. Similarly, C# now has a huge market share (along with
J2EE) in the web area, and is not going anywhere anytime soon.

Learn what you like. If you want to work at a programming job filled
with the agony and ecstasy that is hardcore desktop programming, dig
into C and C++. If you like the web and would like to work on web type
applications, then C# / Java is for you.

Regardless, C# will have no effect on C++

 

[Mirco Wahab]

Hi Zootal

Out there in the real world, what kind of a
future does c++ have?

Almost all of these exciting and nifty
things that "surely will replace C or C++"
are (imho) written in C or C++ or
run on libraries written in C or C++.

These are 'shovels' for people that
want to or have to do the hard work
with them - other peoples work would
be more like 'shovel constructing'.

What, for example, is a 'real world'
Java VM written in?

my 1/50 €

M.

 

[Ian Collins]

Hi Zootal




Almost all of these exciting and nifty
things that "surely will replace C or C++"
are (imho) written in C or C++ or
run on libraries written in C or C++.

These are 'shovels' for people that
want to or have to do the hard work
with them - other peoples work would
be more like 'shovel constructing'.

What, for example, is a 'real world'
Java VM written in?

Don't go there - IBM have one written in Java