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A response to Linus Torvalds on C++: You suffer from the C-hacker syndrome

9 pointsby madover 13 years ago

2 comments

makecheckover 13 years ago
You don't write good code or make compelling arguments by taking extreme points of view. Everything has flaws (and by the way, so does hardware; those bugs can mess up "good" code very nicely).<p>It's your chosen <i>subset</i> of features and available techniques that decides whether or not you are a good programmer who can be trusted to build something important in an efficient and maintainable way.<p>Parts of these rants sound like project managers who can never figure out when to blame themselves, too. If your code was butchered because someone misused a programming language then <i>you</i> didn't assign the right programmer to the task or you didn't set expectations properly (or heck, maybe you just didn't pay enough). It's never as simple as "this language sucks".
zikover 13 years ago
Really I think this guy comes off as being just as biased as Torvalds. He basically states upfront that if you have "The opinion that C is a much better language than C++" then you're obviously wrong. Then he accuses those people of prejudice!