5 ms·
Hmm, well, I'm relatively young so I guess I missed all those broken promises :P Still, I think the "trying to code like C in C++" point still stands.
by AshleysBrain 16y ago
Hmm, well, I'm relatively young so I guess I missed all those broken promises :P Still, I think the "trying to code like C in C++" point still stands.
- bad_user 16y agoWell, if you're ever bored, read this book: http://www.amazon.com/Modern-Design-Generic-Programming-Patterns/dp/0201704315 http://www.amazon.com/Modern-Design-Generic-Programming-Patt...
- jerf 16y agoA compressed version can be obtained simply by comparing the initial release of C++ to modern C++, and recalling that the initial version of C++ itself shipped with, well, pretty much the same set of promises that modern C++ ships with.
- contextfree 16y agoI think you could replace C++ with many, many things involving computers in that sentence.
- dkarl 16y agoDo you mean when it was called C with Classes in 1979, or when they changed the name to C++ in 1983? That's about three decades of change either way. A book about the history and evolution of C++ came out in 1994, a year before the first public release of Java. More time has passed since that book was released than between the invention of C with Classes and the publication of that book. When a language has been around for thirty years, it's hard to perceive its rate of change correctly relative to other languages. It would be best compared to Perl, which is only eight years younger, and which is also still thriving. C++ is actually a pretty slow-moving language.