Author: Bo Persson
Date: 10:53:41 08/12/04
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On August 11, 2004 at 18:38:38, Anthony Cozzie wrote: > >Then, we have C++, which tries to make a high level language out of a low level >language. Guess what? it _doesn't work_. It is an exercise in stupidity. Would you care to expand on this? Exactly *why* doesn't it work? >There are two ways to write C++: you can write it as C with a few nice syntax >features to clean up your code, or you can (as you are evidently advocating) >write it as an attempted high level language. The only problem with this is that >you will fail miserably, because you still have to do your own memory >management, etc. What memory management? What "etc." ? > So you end up with the same development time as C and the same >speed as a high level language. > >This is why languages like C++ and Java are the anus of the body of programming >languages. If you want to sacrifice speed and write in Lisp, I may not agree >with you, but I can at least see where you are coming from. If you want to >write in HLA-attempt-C++, I can only consider you a moron. I'm the kind of moron that writes in C++ because the resulting code looks better and runs faster. What do I do wrong? :-) Bo Persson
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