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Real programmers don't use iostream. Seriously.

• deleted 15y ago
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• joelthelion 15y ago
  Real programmers don't waste time making swooping generalizations about other programmers.
  • ExpiredLink 15y ago
    To be more precise: Real world C++ programmers don't use iostreams as I know from personal experience (more than 10 years of C++ programming). Edit: Several (more or less successful) attempts have been made for an alternative library. http://accu.org/index.php/journals/1539 http://accu.org/index.php/journals/1539 for an overview.
    • X-Istence 15y ago
      In a lot of cases, so far in my career, using iostream's and sstreams and fstreams in C++ is absolutely fine because most of the programs time isn't even spent there, it is spent in the data crunching algorithms. I am a real world C++ programmer, I can only claim about 5 years experience though, and I use iostream. So yes, your data is anecdotal, so is mine, and we are both complete opposites.
    • alexeiz 15y ago
      Raw number of years of experience doesn't mean much. I've seen developers who started using C++ in the early nineties, but haven't bothered to update their knowledge of C++ since then. If I have more years of experience than you, does it make my opinion more authoritative than yours?
• alexeiz 15y ago
  Indeed they don't. There are no iostreams in FORTRAN.