Musing

[neromir]

You know something I find a little funny with C/C++? You take these classes on the language where they show you this nice, structured programming language that has classes and all kinds of nice little features, and it all follows a set paradigm

Comments

[iamzuul]

This seems to be true of all programming languages. I recall programmers complaining about it when I worked at Gleim - needing to seriously reconstructed a horribly hacked together massive website and having no idea what they could delete without breaking everything. And even now, with the frankly very basic programming I'm doing in Crystal Reports and MySQL, when I come across a massive report that I have to fix, that needed crazy hacking to get it to work, and there's not a single comment anywhere that tells me what's referencing what and what the hell it's doing... yeah, it sucks. It's one of those moments of real life =/= college life that we all run into, I think.

Either that or you had a nervous breakdown while you were trying to get it to compile and now you're on trial for homicide.

A++

[xirax]

Programming languages have jobs they are best suited for :) C++ might have the largest scope, being suitable for almost anything -- which results in not being that great for anything. But if you need an app where you want both high-level stuff AND low-level manipulation (for example, a hardware-intensive computer game), C++ is generally a good choice. Otherwise... there are probably better options.

Also, C is much simpler, since it does not try to deal with high level at all.

[cieloan]

And this is why I'm not a programmer. ^o^

[silverstorm_x]

So what I'm reading is.... don't code in C++. ;)