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Personally I don't agree with ESR. I think C++ is a great language, if used with caution, and I will use it right away in projects where C would normally be use

by st3fan 18y ago

Personally I don't agree with ESR. I think C++ is a great language, if used with caution, and I will use it right away in projects where C would normally be used. Specially with useful libraries like STL and Boost being available. Most plain C projects are reinventing the wheel many times. Linked lists, hashtables, reference counting, OO with function pointers. I'm sure those projects shrink at least 33% in size when they would be using STL or Boost. I've certainly seen that in my own code.

alexk 18y ago
Yep, almost every time I look at good C code I see classes and iterators (written in macros), operators etc. Why not use C++ that has this onboard? C++ is a unique language, it gives you a lot of expressive power with the ability to access the lowest level.
wheels 18y ago
Is posting a flamebaity story just to immediately disagree with it really a good idea?
- tel 18y ago
  At HN, miraculously, it might just be.
- st3fan 18y ago
  Why not? I'm curious about other people's opinion on the piece. Why not post my own too then?
kingkongrevenge 18y ago
> libraries like STL and Boost being available. I suspect most of the distaste for C++ is a hang-over from another era. People had some exposure to MFC programming or old compilers with horrible STL support and that formed the popular impression of C++. Modern C++, especially with boost, is a very good language.