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- Subject: Re: C++, was Re: OS features
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- References: <cg.75pd@ami-cg.GraySage.Edmonton.AB.CA> <13213502@sourcery.han.de>
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- From: zeus@jupiter.tng.oche.de (Markus Moenig)
- Message-ID: <zeus.05le@jupiter.tng.oche.de>
- Date: Mon, 22 Jan 96 07:09:11 -0100
- Organization: Private UUCP Site
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- Olaf Barthel (olsen@sourcery.han.de) wrote:
- : In Article <cg.75pd@ami-cg.GraySage.Edmonton.AB.CA>, Chris Gray <cg@ami-cg.GraySage.Edmonton.AB.CA> wrote:
- : > [..]
- : > The BeBox sounds neat, but I refuse to program in C++. I strongly
- : > recommend that anyone thinking of using C++ read the annotated reference
- : > manual first. It is a very large, very inconsistent, very dangerous, and
- : > hard to read language. IHMO, of course!
- :
- : What would you expect from Stroustrup, honestly? Not one of his papers on the
- : language appeared to be halfway readable to me. The man has got a mind full of
- : razor blades. Well, well, I think that C++ is very decent programming language,
- : but most of the introductory documentation is nothing short than horrible. I
- : finally got the drift when I hit upon a book that explained the language feature
- : by feature, just like the 1st edition of "The C programming language" did. Many
- : authors make the mistake to get overly enthusiastic when describing the language
- : features: read three pages and you'll be up to your neck in exception handling
- : and class templates without having a clear concept what the heck these may be
- : useful for in the first place.
- :
- : (This is of course only my personal opinion)
-
- C++ is very neat, especially when you have powerfull user interface
- classes like under OS/2 or Mac. Something like this is sorely missing
- on the Amiga.
-
- However, Java is a very good also and i think it will be the way of
- the future. Its a shame that we will not have a Java environment on
- the Amiga (at least not in the near future).
-
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