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This article sounds like a lesser version of a Linus rant I read once and even he used the strawman argument of "in C you can always see what's going on". Does
by zwieback 15y ago
This article sounds like a lesser version of a Linus rant I read once and even he used the strawman argument of "in C you can always see what's going on". Does nobody in C use function pointers?
I say horses for courses and if you use operator overloading and templates to make your C++ code overly cute then it's not the fault of the language.
- sn 15y agoTry reading the linux kernel. A beautiful example of object oriented c, but it's not any easier to read than c++.
- supersillyus 15y agoC++ can be quite readable, but C can't be particularly magical. If I were Linus and I spent my days reviewing patches from all sorts of folks to a very large codebase, I'd be inclined to prefer a language that can't do anything unless you ask for it.