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What's all the C Plus Fuss? Bjarne Stroustrup warns of dangerous future plans for his C++

Maelstorm Bronze badge

Uhggg Another C++ standard?

You know, we don't really need any new features to the language. In fact, there's a few features that probably should be removed. So yes, I agree with Bjarne Stroustrup. Right tool for the job really. I view C++ as the object oriented version of C, and I use C...a lot in my coding since I code close to the bare metal. C and assembler for my work.

C: Low level system stuff such as kernels, device drivers, libraries, etc...

C++: Higher level application stuff (especially on GUI platforms) or when using objects make sense...like the Abstract Syntax Tree that's generated from a parser and is fed into the code generator for a compiler. OOP makes sense here since the nodes are all the same, the data they contain is what differentiates what type of node it is.

Here's a little thing that Linus said about C++. Enjoy.

http://harmful.cat-v.org/software/c++/linus

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