There is always that question of which is better. So I'm asking you guys, why did you choose C++? If you have tried both Java and C++ say so and let me know which you like better and why.
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There is always that question of which is better. So I'm asking you guys, why did you choose C++? If you have tried both Java and C++ say so and let me know which you like better and why.
I chose c++ because its more flexible than java, you can do more with c++, though it may be more confusing i still prefer it, plus i love dealing with confusing stuff lol. I still program in java sometimes though, just so i dont go rusty
I didn't choose C++ over Java. I was taught C++ in school and my job primarily uses C++. We are working on other stuff in Java, and when I move to that other stuff I'll use Java.
You're probably more interested in why some stuff uses C++ and other stuff uses Java, but I didn't really make that decision so I can't give an actual answer for my specific situation.
As far as which I like better, I'd say C++ mostly because I'm more comfortable and familiar with it. If and when I get more comfortable with Java I don't know whether I'd have a preference.
Did you learn c++ in highschool or college? I learned java in highschool, well actually a tradeschool but it was while i was in highschool lol
ditto Daved's answer. It's fairly narrow of a person to limit themselves to one language. I routinely switch between Java/C/C++/Ada for work. A programmer is a programmer and should be able to handle whatever language you throw at them.
It might be new to you, but it's the same old question over and over again for some of us.
Language comparison questions do come up from time to time, and they tend to end up like this one: C++ compared to Java.
I would say that one should use the best tool for the job. I happen to like the fact that C++ allows for "multi-paradigm programming", with the use of both OOP and template (meta-)programming, and I find the concepts in its standard library interesting. These will not deter me from working on a project in Java.
Oh, and I note that it was moved to the Tech Board even before I could finish my post :p
A friend of mine once said, "Java is like C++'s retarded younger brother."
I love C++ because it trusts me. Java infuriates me because it doesn't. Still, I do use Java for certain projects because it's the most suitable choice.
Lately, Objective-C (the other object-oriented C) has been getting a lot of my attention. Can't recommend it enough.
Learn as many languages as you can, they all come in handy.
>> Did you learn c++ in highschool or college?
College... sort of. We had a Pascal class and a C class, and we spent a couple weeks in our data structures class learning C++. Then we had to use it for all the rest of the classes. The classes were more for theory and stuff anyway, which is generally more important than language specifics. That's why we didn't spend a lot of time on the language itself.
Horses for courses. There's no way I'd use C++ to build a web-based commerce server. Equally there's no way I'd use java to build a cutting edge 3d engine or a large high performance system.
Anyway the point is moot as python is better than both :D
I'm doing C++ in Unix on a hardware effort, but I'll be using Java in Eclipse to develop cross platform apps from my MAC.
The cost in time and overhead to learn multiple IDE's and multiple environments can be taxing.
I wrote a rather small program that was required in a university course in C++. It was considerably easier than it would have been in Java, due to some strange requirements of the application that were easily met by the Boost libraries.
I'm writing a large web platform in Java. I don't want to think what this would take in C++ right now. (But I expect this situation to change over the next 5-10 years.)
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Pet peeve, Mac is not an acronym, and should not be written "MAC" unless you're referring to network card's hardware address.
Yes, but it's extremely worthwhile. I'm a C++ programmer by trade, and I'm amazed at the number of "C++ Developers" that only know how to use one IDE, and just start floundering if you put them in front of something they don't know. At home, I use Xcode, Dev-C++, KDevelop, and sometimes just plain vim to do coding. When I started my job, I had to learn how to use Borland C++ 6 and Visual Studio 2005. My exposure to so many different IDEs allowed to pick both of them up with no problem.Quote:
The cost in time and overhead to learn multiple IDE's and multiple environments can be taxing.
In short, learn as many IDEs, languages, and especially operating systems as possible. There are hundreds of "I only know Visual Studio and Windows" people out there. Differentiating yourself by knowing your way around Macs and Linux machines, and how to develop for them, can go a long way toward getting a decent job.
I agree that IDEs server their purpose, and they probably are worth learning but becoming less dependent upon them in general is also a good thing. If you need an IDE to compile a "hello world" program, then something just ain't right with where you're at. There are loads of people that can't navigate in a shell of any kind (probably loads of those VS + Windows people :D ), and that's bad to be in that category.
I would argue that properly learning different shells, compilers, languages, O/S system calls.... at least to some extend to be able to move around in a shell and figure out what compiler switches to use and such should be primary. I think IDEs are secondary, but I admit, I just hate IDEs since they seem to hide a lot of options that a compiler switch can take care of. Perhaps I'm wrong in that regard.
To comment on the original topic....
C++ allows you to write software in many different ways, with paradigms not very well suited for Java. Java is meant to always be used as an OOP language. I think it's a clean language in that regard, and the API is quite rich and provides a lot of classes for various usages.
C++ gives you more power to communicate with the O/S, and as such, with the hardware of a machine, but such communication is not standard (with regard to C++ I mean... ie. different hardware, different O/S.... means different code). Java is stuck with communicating with the VM and any other extra JNI stuff you tack on, which suffers from the same thing that C++ does, but the Java API is pretty standard and you can guarentee a lot of what will happen on most platforms.
C++ is more efficient than Java in terms of the speed of the execution of the language at this point. Due to Java being interpretted, it's obviously slower, although I read there are optimizations available that make some Java programs run faster than hardcoded compiled programs by having the code recompiled on the fly to be more efficient depending on branches that the program takes as it is executing (Note: This isn't a full reality yet for practical usage afaik).
Depends what you want from the language really. Personally, when I want to deal with the O/S or I want a "real program", I typically use C instead of C++ out of habit, having learned C. When I want an OOP approach to a problem, or something involving threads and sockets, I generally will choose Java over C and C++, since Java's sockets and threads are pretty portable. In addition, I think the OOP approach is better in Java than in C++, but I haven't done much work with C++ really, so I'm biased in that regard.
Overall, this is a long debate, and it's been going on for years, and will probably continue for awhile longer.