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Protoman
Which is better for general-purpose programming, C or C++? My friend
says C++, but I'm not sure. Please enlighten me. Thanks!!!!!
says C++, but I'm not sure. Please enlighten me. Thanks!!!!!
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Jack Klein
Each of them is both better than the other.
Questions like this will get you plonked as a troll in short order.
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Protoman
Jack said:
Why would I get plonked? I'm just asking a simple question.
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Scott McPhillips [MVP]
Protoman said:
What part of "++" is hard for you to understand?
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Victor Bazarov
Protoman said:
Did you also ask it in comp.lang.c? What reaction did you get there?
J
Jack Klein
Note, however, that it is a post increment. And we all know what that
means...
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Mike Wahler
Protoman said:
So why did you ask him/her?
In comp.lang.c++, C++ is best.
In comp.lang.c, C is best
In comp.lang.fortran, fortran is best
In comp.lang...
Get the picture?
You're welcome.
BTW please read this:
http://www.slack.net/~shiva/welcome.txt
-Mike
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Jim Langston
Protoman said:
Protoman... I remember you.
I just wish outlook had a ploink file.
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Jacek Dziedzic
Protoman said:
Define "better".
- J.
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kalyan
probably where speed matters.. C is better, where security matters..
C++ is better..
depends on necessity.
C++ is better..
depends on necessity.
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Ian Collins
FUD.kalyan said:
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Ivan Vecerina
: Which is better for general-purpose programming, C or C++? My friend
: says C++, but I'm not sure. Please enlighten me. Thanks!!!!!
Just a humble perspective of mine:
C remains the "portable assembly language", available on nearly
every processor architecture in use, including the most obscure
embedded controllers. It provides low-level control, has a large
user base, and is relatively easy to learn (if you have any
understanding of assembly or machine languages).
C++ was designed to leverage this foundation, while integrating
support for high-level programming paradigms (object-orientation,
generics, error handling with exceptions, better extensibility
and resource management). Personally I find it painful to write
large programs without taking advantages of these features.
However, getting a complete understanding of C++ takes much
more time and effort -- giving C++ the reputation of being
elitist, a language for specialists.
I am using both, as well as higher-level scripting languages
(Perl, PHP, Python, ...), and will look into platform-specific
extensions of C++ when the time comes ( e.g. C++/CLI ).
The better tool always depends on the job to be done, the
people you are working with, and a number of other factors.
What is your definition of "general-purpose programming" ?
Regards,
Ivan
: says C++, but I'm not sure. Please enlighten me. Thanks!!!!!
Just a humble perspective of mine:
C remains the "portable assembly language", available on nearly
every processor architecture in use, including the most obscure
embedded controllers. It provides low-level control, has a large
user base, and is relatively easy to learn (if you have any
understanding of assembly or machine languages).
C++ was designed to leverage this foundation, while integrating
support for high-level programming paradigms (object-orientation,
generics, error handling with exceptions, better extensibility
and resource management). Personally I find it painful to write
large programs without taking advantages of these features.
However, getting a complete understanding of C++ takes much
more time and effort -- giving C++ the reputation of being
elitist, a language for specialists.
I am using both, as well as higher-level scripting languages
(Perl, PHP, Python, ...), and will look into platform-specific
extensions of C++ when the time comes ( e.g. C++/CLI ).
The better tool always depends on the job to be done, the
people you are working with, and a number of other factors.
What is your definition of "general-purpose programming" ?
Regards,
Ivan
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Ben Pope
kalyan said:
Nope.
Ben Pope
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nntp.aioe.org
Wot do you mean by that?kalyan said:
--Wg-
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Ben Pope
nntp.aioe.org said:
Apples are less fruity than oranges.
Ben Pope
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Gernot Frisch
A good FORTRAN programmer can write FORTRAN code in _any_ language
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ma740988
Ivan said:
Well said!! Unfortunately all the noise pertaining to code bloat/slow
and the C++ standard library's use (some call it the STL ) in embedded
will never end. When I first decided to embrace the language, that's
all I ever heard from the 'C' purists.
The most recent argument I've heard pertains to the
re-compilation/re-linking saga when dealing with templates. Granted
I've haven't done much investigation but in a nutshell. gcc apparently
does a * couple * iterations of re-compile/re-link when dealing with
templates. Not sure why ... but ..
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pbruno
Protoman ha scritto:
manage little project, not complex, C (in my experience) is better than
C++ becouse you spend less money. If you have to manage a big project
OOP is quite usefull for code reuse, scalability, design and so on, so
I'd use C++ . I don't find this a stupid question, and I don't have a
fix response ....
In my opinion it depends on what you have to manage. If you have to
manage little project, not complex, C (in my experience) is better than
C++ becouse you spend less money. If you have to manage a big project
OOP is quite usefull for code reuse, scalability, design and so on, so
I'd use C++ . I don't find this a stupid question, and I don't have a
fix response ....
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Mike Smith
Protoman said:
Oh, joy. Another round of "innocent questions" from Protoman.
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Tomás
Protoman posted:
C++.
It has all the features of C, plus more feature like classes,
inheritance, polymorphism, templates.
The C Programming language is dead in my mind.
-Tomás
C++.
It has all the features of C, plus more feature like classes,
inheritance, polymorphism, templates.
The C Programming language is dead in my mind.
-Tomás