Re: [OT] Re: C++ *for Git*

On 9/22/07, Kyle Rose [off-list ref] wrote:

C++ is in the same category as Perl IMO: too easy to produce unreadable
code.  I contend that C is pretty much just as bad, though in a
different way: while C lacks C++'s ability to bury code in multiple
layers of opaque abstractions, C makes up for it by providing absolutely
no GC-type structures (i.e., I do this now, you clean it up later when
I'm no longer interested in it).  C is all explicit, which is nice when
you have a good handle on everything that is going on *or* an explicit
system for remembering to do those types of cleanup tasks that is
well-understood by all developers involved.

I'd say being forced to be explicit is a good thing here, so that the
programmer at least has some sort of good understanding of what is
going on, and chances are that if he doesn't really know, things just
won't work out (quite unlike a lot of other languages where this
programmer might actually end up with something half-assed that
"mostly" works).

For some reason it seems to me a lot harder to find bad programmers
surviving using C than a lot of the other languages.

Alex