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The only attack I feel is calling C/C++ a language. It's two languages and we don't like each other very much. People who spend a lot of time trying to write go
by jordigh 8y ago
The only attack I feel is calling C/C++ a language. It's two languages and we don't like each other very much. People who spend a lot of time trying to write good C++ avoid much of C's bread and butter like malloc and free, and the general hatred of C++ from C developers is well-documented.
I happen to prefer C++ to C and D to both.
- guessmyname 8y agoI have never treated "C/C++" as the name of a single language. I always read it as "C and/or C++".
- mortdeus 8y agoYou can consider them the same in the sense that they are the guys with the biggest cocks on the block.
- jordigh 8y agoThey are so often spoken of in the same breath in ways that other languages are not, that I think a lot of people do forget that they are not the same thing nor even that culturally close.
- noobermin 8y agoGoing to be honest, whenever I see or hear someone put them in the same category, it usually colors my impression of said person as essentially never really learning C++.
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- novembermike 8y agoEh, I'd call them culturally close. I always read it as "the most common systems programming languages", since that's how the phrasing is usually used.
- jordigh 8y agoEven that can be disputed. They typically have quite different domains of applications. Gamedev is seldom done in C; operating systems are seldom done in C++. Their different level of abstraction ends up having them applied to different things.
- scoggs 8y agoI would assume a lot of recruiter-types or folks just getting their feet wet into programming would assume C++ is just a newer or more powerful "Edition" / "Version" of C.
- euyyn 8y ago> we don't like each other very much Hi are you a language?