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>> It's just 95% of the programmers using those languages are not very skilled. High level languages just make it easier for crappy programmers to approximate

• ConceptJunkie 12y ago
  This is true for C++ and doubly true for Java. In 20 years, I don't think I've ever seen a commercial third-party C++ library that I thought was competently designed and implemented. I was about to offer the exception of mysql++, but then I remembered it's an open-source library so it wouldn't count as commercial. C++ seems to breed a lot of crappy but marginally useful code. I haven't done much Java, and I don't think it's a bad language, I've never seen a Java development environment that I would even wish on my enemies. Java seems to breed bloated over-engineered but under-flexible designs that require the programmer to do way too much of the kind of stuff that we invented computers to do for us in the first place.