Re: [dev] [OT] What's wrong with C++?

On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 08:19:38PM +0300, Nikhilesh S wrote:
> I haven't really understood the problems with C++ that the people here
> that have problems with C++ have[...]

Felix von Leitner gave a pretty good presentation in 2007 on such problems :)

http://www.fefe.de/c++/c%2b%2b-talk.pdf

> Maybe C++ is 'complex' but doing things with it is 'simple',[...]

That's exactly one of the problems.
As mentioned in the slides:
- C++ makes using good libraries very nice
- C++ makes writing good libraries almost impossible

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