Bjarne Stroustrup Reveals All On C++

An anonymous reader writes "Bjarne Stroustrup, the creative force behind one of the most widely used and successful programming languages — C++ — is featured in an in-depth 8-page interview where he reveals everything programmers and software engineers should know about C++; its history, what it was intended to do, where it is at now, and of course what all good code-writers should think about when using the language he created."

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useful but oh so flawed

[speedtux]

what all good code-writers should think about when using the language he created."

Mostly, I try to meditate on being calm when writing C++ code, because the language is so full of infuriating and avoidable design problems.

Re:useful but oh so flawed

[croftj]

Unlike the wonderful world of Java eh?

I love not having overloaded operators in Java (or at least how nobody makes use of them). I also like how anal folks are that in the member functions which throw exceptions which must be caught for every little shit thing that could go wrong. So what is wrong with returning an error code when a file can't be closed? Must an exception be thrown?

Yep, java had a lot more thought put into how to make the programmer do as much work prepping to call a function as he would to write the function in the first place.

Or maybe you're talking about VB or C#...

managed code

[Anonymous Coward]

Is there any way to write managed code in C++?

Problem: unmanaged code is (deservedly) dying out. Our shop now mandates only managed code. I think any language that doesn't support managed code is going to die out over the next 10 years. (I don't mean 100% - there are still people programming in Cobol even though I'd call it to have effectively died out).

Re:Interesting Read

[Profane MuthaFucka]

Where do you kids get these wrongheaded ideas?