Of course one must use the right tools for the job. But honestly, once you have seen Ruby, you want to do many things in it.
The problem today is that programmers have no choice. Either because of company limitations, or because they just don't know of the alternatives.
Programmers today only learn C(++), Visual Basic (what's that good for?) and perhaps Java or C#. They don't learn the really different languages like Prolog or Lisp. And that's where choosing the right language is important. There are problems like XML-decoding or native language parsing where you can write your programs in Prolog in just a fraction of the time needed in C or Assembler or C# or Java or whatever.
Yes, there is a niche for C and that is rather high speed fixed length data-processing. But I don't know the niche for C++ yet. OK, KDE is written in C++, but otherwise I wouldn't start anything in that language, mainly because reality shows that it's hard to write programs properly in that language. New messages about buffer overflows only possible in C(++).
Before some people complain that C is so much more efficient than all the rest. Just look at how strings are typically done in C and tell me if it's really efficient to use 1kilobyte for a string that typically is just a few bytes long, just so you won't run into buffer overflows?
I wonder why people bother with things like C# or Java. They don't seem to offer any big advantages over C++. On the other hand, all I've heared of C++ and all I've seen of it and learned of C basically was horrible.
I mean mucking around with pointers is something that can be fun, but it definitely doesn't have the beauty you need for doing real work.
However there are alternatives. Just look at Ruby, a completely object-based language. You can do thinks like "Hello World".length, or -113.abs .
You do not need to care about creating and destroying objects since everything is done in a really nice way.
It is extremely powerfull, enabling you to examine and modify your own program code at runtime. And it's even clean at that.
I definitely wouldn't want to start any new projects in C# or Java, but C++ also wouldn't be my first choice.
6 months is not a long time for Microsoft to fix a serious security flaw. Beeing able to send batch commands since at least 1998. http://www.phrack.org/show.php?p=54&a=8 Active X is still found in IE and Microsoft doesn't even think about removing that security hole by design.
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Of course one must use the right tools for the job. But honestly, once you have seen Ruby, you want to do many things in it. The problem today is that programmers have no choice. Either because of company limitations, or because they just don't know of the alternatives. Programmers today only learn C(++), Visual Basic (what's that good for?) and perhaps Java or C#. They don't learn the really different languages like Prolog or Lisp. And that's where choosing the right language is important. There are problems like XML-decoding or native language parsing where you can write your programs in Prolog in just a fraction of the time needed in C or Assembler or C# or Java or whatever.
Honestly game programming is a good niche for C++. Games typically don't run for a long time. They work with fixed sized inputs and need to be fast.
Yes, there is a niche for C and that is rather high speed fixed length data-processing. But I don't know the niche for C++ yet. OK, KDE is written in C++, but otherwise I wouldn't start anything in that language, mainly because reality shows that it's hard to write programs properly in that language. New messages about buffer overflows only possible in C(++).
Before some people complain that C is so much more efficient than all the rest. Just look at how strings are typically done in C and tell me if it's really efficient to use 1kilobyte for a string that typically is just a few bytes long, just so you won't run into buffer overflows?
I wonder why people bother with things like C# or Java. They don't seem to offer any big advantages over C++. On the other hand, all I've heared of C++ and all I've seen of it and learned of C basically was horrible. I mean mucking around with pointers is something that can be fun, but it definitely doesn't have the beauty you need for doing real work. However there are alternatives. Just look at Ruby, a completely object-based language. You can do thinks like "Hello World".length, or -113.abs . You do not need to care about creating and destroying objects since everything is done in a really nice way. It is extremely powerfull, enabling you to examine and modify your own program code at runtime. And it's even clean at that. I definitely wouldn't want to start any new projects in C# or Java, but C++ also wouldn't be my first choice.
Servus,
6 months is not a long time for Microsoft to fix a serious security flaw. Beeing able to send batch commands since at least 1998. http://www.phrack.org/show.php?p=54&a=8
Active X is still found in IE and Microsoft doesn't even think about removing that security hole by design.
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Casandro