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This article is silly. The real reason for the rise of C++ is that "C with Objects" fit the metaphors that GUI libraries need a lot better than C. And in the e
by thras 17y ago
This article is silly. The real reason for the rise of C++ is that "C with Objects" fit the metaphors that GUI libraries need a lot better than C.
And in the end...it's not such a bad language. In the real world, you only use a small part of it on any one project. In the real world, your framework or libraries matter more than the language anyway. And in the real world, performance always matters in the end.
- adamc 17y agoI don't agree on the last. In the "real world" that I am familiar with, performance is often irrelevant. Lots of programs get written that don't need to run fast or don't do enough work for performance to be an issue.
- thras 17y agoWell, if we're talking "programs" as opposed to administration glue scripts, I see very few fields where performance doesn't matter. It matters for online apps. It matters for GUI applications. It matters for games. It matters for scientific software. Operating systems. Embedded apps. I suppose there are some enterprise business niche software fields somewhere where it doesn't matter -- until someone decides to write some competing software and sell it, that is.
- gaius 17y agoNot least because better performance means less money spent on hardware, power, cooling, less space occupied in the datacentre, etc etc. Joe Hacker might not care about performance of his scripts on his VM he's got from a hosting provider, but you can bet they care a great deal about how many VMs they can fit on one physical host.
- adamc 17y agoWow, quite the load of BS ego there. The average page in the wide-wide world is seldom visited and its performance doesn't matter. There are any number of GUI programs I use that are just utilities whose performance matters very little. And, yes, there is plenty of business software that needs to do its job correctly but where the performance is unimportant, or nearly so. Kind of disappointed in HN for rating you up. Just goes to show...