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From: Malcolm McLean <malcolm.arthur.mclean@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: C23 thoughts and opinions
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On 01/06/2024 14:28, David Brown wrote:
> On 01/06/2024 01:34, Lynn McGuire wrote:
>> On 5/26/2024 6:23 AM, Bonita Montero wrote:
>>> Am 26.05.2024 um 09:13 schrieb jak:
>>>
>>>> About this I only agree partially because it depends a lot on the
>>>> context in which it is used. Moreover, I would not know how to indicate
>>>> an optimal programming language for all seasons.
>>>
>>> C++ is in almost any case the better C.
>>>
>>>> What you describe is the greatest inconvenience of c++. To make only 
>>>> one
>>>> example, when they decided to rewrite the FB platform to accelerate it,
>>>> they thought of migrating from php to c++ and they had a collapse of 
>>>> the
>>>> staff suitable for work, so they thought of relying a compiler that
>>>> translated the php into c++ and many of the new languages were born to
>>>> try to remedy hits complexity.
>>>
>>> C++ is the wrong language for web applications.
>>> I like Java more for that.
>>
>> C++ is the wrong language for real time apps.  No memory allocation 
>> allowed.
>>
> 
> I use C++ for real-time apps.  You don't have to have dynamic memory 
> allocation just because you are writing in C++ !
> 
> 
I use C++ because I like vectors (arrays) that you don't have to 
allocate or pass length parameters about with, I like strings which you 
can pass about (though to actually use the contents you need to covert 
to char *, otherwuse it is hopeless), and I like objects that you don't 
have to destroy explicitly, and can assign easily, and have good 
facilitiesfor private data.. Occasionally I need a hash table or a 
balanced binary tree, and again C++ makes it easy, though I have of 
course rolled my own.

I've spent the last ten years working mainly with C++, and only very 
occasionally writing code for professional purposes in C, though all my 
hobby programming is in C. I have recently had to stop work, and after a 
course of chemo which knocked me back, I am now feeling the benefit, and 
the cancer has shrunk and is less painful, and I've been full time on C 
and highly productive, and some really exciting things are happening 
with the Baby X resource compiler.

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