I just put a similar response in another post, but its just as appropriate here... If you want to know how C++ can be better, you should take a look at at the

I just put a similar response in another post, but its just as appropriate here... If you want to know how C++ can be better, you should take a look at at the Reason C++ framwork, especially if you have never seen C++ in its most pure uncomplicated OO form. http://reasoning.info http://reasoning.info Reason is a C++ framework that ive been writing for about 8 years, which aleviates many of the sources of pain highlighted in this discussion. Writing code with Reason is much more like using a dynamic language, with a full library like Java or .Net. It supports raii, but doesnt use exception handling and doesnt bother with const nonsense or over the top inheritance restrictions. In fact pretty much everything in Reason is public and designed to be derived, modified or enhanced. It has generic programming features, but doesnt force you to write everything as templates (a classic mistake that the standard library makes). For example, you can have an iterator of int's without caring what the underlying container type is, so your code and algorithms can actually be generic, not just infectious templates. Unlike a lot of C++ frameworks and libraries, its not specifically focused on networking, or a few esoteric template classes or collection libraries. Reason is a fully featured systems programming framework with a complete interface to all the usual posix api's and everything else you would expect from a modern language. It has strings, regexes, streams, parsers, sockets, threads, filesystem, encryption, encoding, xml, xpath, collections, time and date, sql (mysql, postgress, sqlite), http (client/server), smart pointers, formatting, logging, and much more. But the features are perhaps not as important as how it is written. It is simple, and very object oriented, everything is designed to work togeather cleanly and obey the principle of least surprise. Just like Python and Ruby, Reason allows you to do a lot in a very small amount of code. So if your wondering how you can have the simplicity of C, with just the good parts of C++, heres your answer. http://reasoning.info http://reasoning.info