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Interview With Herb Sutter

Posted by Hemos on from the working-with-the-crowd dept.

Anonymous Coward writes "Herb Sutter, a C++ luminary, recently joined Microsoft's Developer Platform and Evangelism Division, where he acts as a liaison between Microsoft and the C++ developer community. In this interview he speaks about his new job, the role of C++ in the .NET framework, and the current state of C++."

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  1. I will never understand... by Dixie_Flatline · · Score: 2, Flamebait

    ...What the deal is with C++. It's a terrible language with NO pre-thought design (Stroustroup has said in interviews that he doesn't think it's necessary to design a language before writing it) that is so badly broken that nobody has EVER made a fully compliant compiler (or, indeed, is even CAPABLE of making a fully complaint compiler). Herb Sutter says that you should go out and learn lots of languages if you want to be a better (C++) programmer, but the only thing that other languages taught me was how BAD C++ really is. I'm desperately hoping for C# to take over. Everything I've seen makes it a fair step up on C++. Java is a fine language, if you use it properly, and Squeak (http://www.squeak.org) Smalltalk is fun, simple programming. Objective-C is great for people that want to program in an object oriented, C based language, and there are legions of other languages that get barely used, even though they're super good.

    I program in C++, but I don't think I'll ever like it. The language is too big, too complicated, and gives bad programmers too many ways to blow their feet clean off. I believe in the original C language philosophy. Small, simple, fast, powerful.