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Re:Zed Shaw on C++ by WilliamLP on Thursday July 15, 2010 @11:22PM (#1520122)
It has grabbed and maintained complete domination of nearly all performance sensitive code in games and desktop software, for nearly a generation now which is an unprecedented reign in computing history. That's a pretty good start to me.
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Re:Zed Shaw on C++ by ericb on Thursday July 15, 2010 @11:39PM (#1520162)
Are you saying that the complete domination claim is also true in comparison to C?
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Re:Zed Shaw on C++ by zedshaw on Friday July 16, 2010 @01:12AM (#1520357)
Yes, I think this is the funniest thing about C++. Everyone who loves it thinks it's the most popular language...well except when compared to C.

Basically, until you can kill C your language really isn't that popular. It's a fad by comparison.

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Re:Zed Shaw on C++ by kragen on Friday July 16, 2010 @05:06PM (#1522586)
I don't know if he's saying that, but yes, nearly all performance-sensitive code in games and desktop software is written in C++, not C. Objective-C seems to be edging in.
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Re:Zed Shaw on C++ by mfukar on Friday July 16, 2010 @02:51AM (#1520502)
No. You are mistaken.
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