Hello, I would like to hear from you, what is in your opinion is the biggest strength of C++ over C and vice versa.
Do you appreciate OO in C++ ? Or something else more push you to use C++ instead of C ?
Is it possible to imlement OO in C making another function or sub program which can produce OO and let us use inheritance, encapsulation and other features of object orientation ?
Regards.
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All of these question has been asked and answered a million times, and you'll find a billion related opinions.
Really now, what do we have? Is this "trollbait"? Or is this "I didn't want to take two seconds to search the web."?
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Defending the thread with "I wanted to know specifically about the regulars." is pointless.
Search the forum; you'll find that all the regulars have already expressed their opinions.
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Soma
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Sure, questions like C or C++ or which one is better for particular job have been discussed a hundreds times, but my question is little bit more deep. I would like to hear from user for makes them to use C++ or C.Originally Posted by phantomotap
Plus what is even more important, I want to discuss about posibilities of implemnting OO mechanism into C.
Where you see similar subjects ?
O_oWhere you see similar subjects ?
I wonder...
Soma
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Okay, C++ user here. For me, the advantage of C++ is that, if coded to certain standards, it can provide type and memory safety and code correctness that C simply can't, and it can do so while meeting or exceeding C performance. I've had this debate here before and it triggered a flame war, so I'll leave it there. But that's the perspective of one real-world C++ user (by user I mean I write commercial software in C++).
Implementing C++-like method calling in C is an interesting homework problem but makes for a trivial discussion topic. It can be done, and in several different ways.Plus what is even more important, I want to discuss about posibilities of implemnting OO mechanism into C.
Code://try //{ if (a) do { f( b); } while(1); else do { f(!b); } while(1); //}
Look for "Object-oriented Programming with ANSI-C" - Axel-Tobias Schreiner
It's quite comprehensive, 221 pages, and may be still available as a free download.
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Ctors/dtors, RAII, and exceptions.
C++'s biggest strength I think, is that you can *almost* use it with the ease of a garbage collected language, even though it's not actually garbage collected.
Why? Use C++ if you want that. And use composition over inheritance when possible.
Thanks for your opinion, could you expand it a little bit ? What you mean by "garbage collected language" ?
What he means is, the STL is BOSS! And smart pointers are nice too.
What I personally love about C++ has been mentioned by Yarin (constructors, RAII and exceptions) but the STL is a huge part for me. Clever use of the STL allows you to program quite a bit.
A language that uses garbage collection instead of manual freeing of resources. Examples include Java, C#, PHP, Javascript, VB, etc. Well, pretty much any modern language save for C and C++ are garbage collected.
C++ does it differently by giving you control over where memory is freed (typically via smart pointers). It can either be when a function ends or through reference counting (i.e. counting the number of pointers existing to an object and destroying it when the last pointer to the resource is destroyed).
Thanks for your opinions guys
So far I have done some work in both C and C++, what I see is C++ allows programmers to write programs faster and easier plus has a lot useful features which C lack.
When you ask people about both languages they tends to think about C++ as a more modern language which should be considered in 90 % of work.
So here is my question, why C was chose as a base of most OS, programming languages (i.e perl,python) , software and so on.
Basically why this small language with only 32 keywords and almost 50 years history is still so popular and chosen to so many tasks ?
testing...
It's because C++ is a horrible, horrible language : Gmane Loom
A lot of operating systems and programming languages were invented before C++ existed, and some people just dislike C++. Yes, the fabled language wars!Thanks for your opinions guys
So far I have done some work in both C and C++, what I see is C++ allows programmers to write programs faster and easier plus has a lot useful features which C lack.
When you ask people about both languages they tends to think about C++ as a more modern language which should be considered in 90 % of work.
So here is my question, why C was chose as a base of most OS, programming languages (i.e perl,python) , software and so on.
Basically why this small language with only 32 keywords and almost 50 years history is still so popular and chosen to so many tasks ?
For others, it's simply legacy code, lack of C++ programmers, poor toolchains. Also, many C++ features, such as exceptions. just don't work well with operating systems. But I do fear that there is a general bias that C++ cannot be used for operating systems (which is false). It's just another of those things people tell themselves.
This tastes like bait, but I'll bite.
It's tantamount to heresy to say this on these forums, but... C is still preferable to C++ in some low-level applications. (For example, exceptions, great as they are, are a horrible thing to implement in very low level environments.)
Yes, C++ is so horrible. You want a language that gives you manual memory control and RAII? F**k you!
