C# is for bed-wetting nancy types. C++ is the One True Language

[Pete OHanlon]

If it ain't Plain English, then don't come round here bitchin' about it.

I'm not a stalker, I just know things. Oh by the way, you're out of milk.

Forgive your enemies - it messes with their heads

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[Lost User]

I used to work with a guy who could write machine code programs direct in IBM VM; he was a real programmer.

d@nish[^] has the answer.

[Lost User]

I've spent most of my career in Progress, and have been back in there a few times in recent days. Can I have a new forum just for me please.

Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends.

[Manfred Rudolf Bihy]

That's why it's at position 1. :)

[Peter Mulholland]

Do want to stop by my place of work today for a couple of minutes and coide up the crap I'm working on at the minute? It would save me doing UML diagrams n stuff. thanks :-D

Pete

[Chris Maunder]

Ah, now that brings back memories[^].

cheers, Chris Maunder The Code Project | Co-founder Microsoft C++ MVP

[Marc A Brown]

And when the C#'ers and C++'ers take each other out, all that will be left in the aftermath will be the VB.NET chosen. :laugh:

[Gary Wheeler]

My contribution to modern civilization :-O.

Software Zen: delete this;

[Lost User]

Fortunately for me I just happen to be a bed-wetting nancy type.

if (typeof(Programmer) == "BedWetting.Nancy")
{
Programmer.LanguageOfChoice = "C#";
}

[R Erasmus]

and your point? ;-)

"Program testing can be used to show the presence of bugs, but never to show their absence." << please vote!! >>

[Kerrash]

Butterflies :cool:

[BrainiacV]

Sorry, FORTH is the one true language. You can intermix low level assembler and high level FORTH. The language can be multitasking, not the OS. You can extend the compiler as you are compiling the program. Back in the early 90's I'd compile 300K programs in 30 seconds, while the C compiler would take hours. And the application could still be interactive allowing new commands to be created while the program was running instead of the old, tired, edit-compile-run cycle every time you needed to make a minor change. Unit testing is a breeze since each verb (command) is stack based, so no scaffolding is required, just load up the stack with the input parameters, run the command, check the stack for the expected output. Multiple programmers can work on their sections and then just zipper the different files together without fear of name collisions. A project I initially estimated would take 9 months was operational in 6 weeks because we were able to fling code at the wall and it all stuck.

Psychosis at 10 Film at 11

[Mike Winiberg]

Nah - key the program in using binary key-switches on the front panel! (BTDTGTTS with an elliott 903!)

[Alan Balkany]

<sarcasm> And a hammer is better than a screwdriver. </sarcasm> C++ and C# are different tools which are useful in different situations. Development is faster in C#, and code is more reliable. It's a more modern language. But it's slow. In one C# graphics-intensive app I work on, I call C++ methods in a DLL to do all the pixel manipulations fast. I think this is the ideal way to divide the work. I call C++ "the new assembly language". (Back in the 20th century I used to use assembly language to speed up C apps.)

[Lost User]

Actually C++ is for bed-wetting nancy types. Assembler is the One True Language

[Fabio Franco]

While C++ are still coding what I've done faster in C#, I'm getting laid :)

[Christian Schiffer2]

ppl still using c++ are dinosaurs :-\ They are like old C64 machines, nice to have in a museum but useless in the real world.. ;-P Let the games begin :suss:

[Manfred Rudolf Bihy]

Now that's the right direction you're heading. Keep it up, 5+! :-D

[swmiller]

You young'uns got it soft. Back in my day I had to write an entire database product using only 0s.

[variantseeker]

I'll one up the statement in the message title. But first, some history. The "C++ is difficult" crap first emerged with the rise of Java with proponents screaming their heads off about how it is absolutely essential to free programmers from worrying about memory de-allocation, that multiple inheritance is evil, that C++ suffers from feature creep, and that it is not a purely object-oriented programming language. A cult was formed around this, and as is true about must cults, there were strong commercial interests at work that found the patronizing of this cult as an easy way of subtly promoting selfish aims. Those who think memory de-allocation is a huge productivity killer, I think they have pure shit instead of gray matter in their brains. Terms like 'dung headed', 'shit brained', and 'crap headed' should be used to describe these pansies who should be doing janitorial work rather than programming. And that is because they don't understand 'resource acquisition is initialization'. The modern definition of a truly object-oriented programming language is that it should support ALL the constructs of UML. This means supporting multiple inheritance of both concrete and abstract classes, which means Java is also not a truly object-oriented. Take that you Java suckers!!!! And finally, the amount of bloat in BOTH language features AND libararies in both Java AND C# is testament to the fact that in reality blasphemers blaspheme to try and hide their illegitimate births. Enough said!!!!