What's your opinion? "C++ is back..."

[Cholo Lennon]

"C++ is Back with a Vengeance"
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What's your opinion?

Regards


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[Juha Nieminen]

"C++ is Back with a Vengeance"
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What's your opinion?

To be completely honest, for a time I was a bit worried that my forte,
the programming language I'm by far most fluent with, would slowly fade
into obsolescence. For many years this seemed to be strongly the case
(first with Java, although that was never the worst contended, and then
especially with C# and other higher-level .NET languages). It's nice to
see that C++ might not, after all, become obsolete anytime soon.

 

[Lynn McGuire]

"C++ is Back with a Vengeance"
http://www.informit.com/guides/content.aspx?g=cplusplus&seqNum=545

What's your opinion?

C++ never went away. If you need performance, Fortran,
C and C++ are the way to go. In fact, we are the process
of converting our fortran code to C++ for portability,
maintainability and better parallelism.

Lynn

 

[Ebenezer]

"C++ is Back with a Vengeance"http://www.informit.com/guides/content.aspx?g=cplusplus&seqNum=545

What's your opinion?

C++ is still going strong. It will be interesting to see
how things shake out. The world isn't built on C++ though.


Brian Wood
Ebenezer Enterprises
http://webEbenezer.net

 

[MikeP]

It depends on what Microsoft decides.

 

[Todd Carnes]

It depends on what Microsoft decides.

Who cares what Microsoft thinks about anything?

 

[MikeP]

Who cares what Microsoft thinks about anything?

You misquoted me: you left off the wink emoticon. To answer your question
though, the fact is that MS has a lot of power to affect the way
developers create software because of the omni-presence of its own
software. If MS decides to drop C++ as a viable Windows development tool
(incrementally maybe by creating things like "managed code" and requiring
C++/CLI to use .Net, etc.), it can do so and you can complain all you
want to but if you want to deploy your software on theirs, then you will
just have to grin and bare it. (Another example: No inline assembler in
VC++ for 64-bit Windows ).

 

[Todd Carnes]

You misquoted me: you left off the wink emoticon.

Sorry about that. It was unintentional.

To answer your
question though, the fact is that MS has a lot of power to affect the
way developers create software because of the omni-presence of its own
software. If MS decides to drop C++ as a viable Windows development tool
(incrementally maybe by creating things like "managed code" and
requiring C++/CLI to use .Net, etc.), it can do so and you can complain
all you want to but if you want to deploy your software on theirs, then
you will just have to grin and bare it. (Another example: No inline
assembler in VC++ for 64-bit Windows ).

I realize after reviewing my post that I probably came across as an
a##hole. My question could have been worded better. Thanks responding.
You make some good points.

Todd

 

[MikeP]

Sorry about that. It was unintentional.

I was just checking. It was the important part, ya know (though you know
now that I wasn't being COMPLETELY facetious).

I realize after reviewing my post that I probably came across as an
a##hole.

It's internet, you didn't, and don't worry about it. The subtlety of text
is EASILY misconstrued. If one WANTED to, it is EASY to make text words
have meanings other than meant by the writer of the text. Actually, there
are those who would/will/do EXPLOIT that subtleness. They use THEIR
dictionairies and they own interpretations and MORE THAN SUGGEST that
THAT is the TRUE MEANING. Forget about the writer's thoughts. The writer
of the text is OUT OF THE EQUATION. Opportunists of evil? Indeed.

 

[Surinder Singh]

"C++ is Back with a Vengeance"
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What's your opinion?

Regards


PS: I'm sorry if you read comp.std.c++ (moderated) for multiposting this
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C++ can be pretty powerful in app design and execution. But it can also
entangle a meek soul in memory corruptions and screwed exception
handling across c++ libs built using different compilers.
C++ can be more punishing than Java for impulsive developers.
Java has beutiful javadocs, description for C functions is usually
available with man pages on unix. C++ compilers should include some nice
documentation tool with search capability. C++ certainly owns a lot of
ground.

- Surinder

 

[Rui Maciel]

It depends on what Microsoft decides.

Why? In spite of microsoft's heavy investment on technologies such as C#
and Silverlight, the market is still dominated by the incumbent
technologies.


Rui Maciel