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Could you give some examples of things which you think were mistakenly copied, and things which should've been copied but were ignored?

• MaxBarraclough 8y ago
  Nothing like a good C++ flamewar, but we already have a fine compilation of the case against the language - https://yosefk.com/c++fqa/ https://yosefk.com/c++fqa/
• jcelerier 8y ago
  they focused on C++ as an object-oriented programming language (as did, to be fair, mostly everyone in the 1990s since it was The Big Thing then) without seeing where C++'s real value is, which is : - value types - RAII idiom with exceptions it's a big, coherent package, which means that you can write code so that e.g. my_type foo{whatever}; file f{"/foo/bar", "w"}; foo.do_stuff(); f.write(foo); and you can be assured that you won't have null pointers croppying left and right, much less "new" to write, your objects are always in a valid state, etc etc. Java is the opposite: the whole object model revolves around the identity of objects, and thus any function that looks like `public string whatever()` can return null, you have to do manual cleanup of your resources most of the time everytime you use a type (closing files, streams, soundcards, etc etc), versus every time you define a type in C++.