Thread: why not ++?

Originally Posted by Mario F.

All the mainstream languages do, for sure.

*cough*java*cough*

Originally Posted by Elysia

That's the point. Objects, abstraction, encapsulation, generic.
It's not that you can't do it, but it quickly becomes a nightmare to manage.

Try coding a large game in C. Oh, it's possible, but it's probably not going to be easy.
But the thing is that modern programming languages makes it easier.

My company's product is roughly the same number of lines of code as Windows XP, and it's written in M (AKA MUMPS). You manage.

Really, working on a big project is more about good quality control and good documentation than anything else. You can do big projects object-oriented or procedural, and as long as you keep standards high there's not a huge amount of difference.