Up until recently I’ve only had to deal with standard-compliant C++. I’ve pretty much enjoyed writing C++ code that abides by an accepted and well-defined standard. This means I have been for the most part using most of the standard features of the Standard Template Library. That changed...
I thought about the subject a little more and tried to look into myself and what was stopping me from learning generic programming earlier in my C++ programming experience. One recent interview I had still sold C++ as an Object Oriented Programming language, which was surprising to me because it was...
I got a chance to read an interesting, well-written, but badly inaccurate and almost exclusively provocative piece of writing over at TechRepublic. The article — like countless articles on the web already — try to predict the demise of C++, this time in favor of other programming languages...
Just after writing a piece about how C++ can be faster than C, I run into this article that speaks about how C is better than C++. Adam Smith writes:
It has been claimed that C++ is a better C them [sic] C. this is being taken to mean that when switching to C++ you can [...]