jensa1948

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by jensa1948 8y ago
Scalable C ( https://hintjens.gitbooks.io/scalable-c/content/preface.html ) looks like a reasonable way to write software in C from my C++ programmer perspective. However, you could also use C++ to express the inten
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by jensa1948 8y ago
"Orthodox C++" looks more like writing C-code and keeping the C programming style. Most of the points are really questionable. - "In general case code should be readable to anyone who is familiar with C language". Why sh
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by jensa1948 8y ago
Can you post a reference to the arguments? Most arguments against C++ are very dated, and sometimes are comming from people whose experience is mostly as a C programmer.
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by jensa1948 8y ago
Eric S. Raymond's article is indeed interesting, but it doesn't contain a lot of real arguments. I find most of them to be anecdotes and they are not very convincing. The most convincing one is that people who are not proficient i
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by jensa1948 8y ago
I can see points against exceptions, but generally RAII has nothing to with exceptions, so what is the point against this? It makes managing any resource with acquire/release semantics very easy. It also prevents errors when the code i
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by jensa1948 8y ago
People who use singletons deserve no better...
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by jensa1948 8y ago
I don't think it is a good blog post. He first criticises exception handling as undefined behavior which it is certainly not, and then criticises exception handling in general because it decouples error raising from error handling. Thi