Go is not an easy language

Re:Go is not an easy language by pjmlp on Monday February 22, 2021 @10:08AM (#26225353)

C/C++ isn't a programming language, rather the abreviation for C and C++.

I am fully aware of the last decade of C++, including papers written by Bjarne Stroustrup and other C++ key figures, where they uses the hated C/C++ expression, that so many happen to have issues with.

Which I can gladly point you to.

Given that security is one of my areas, I always keep up to date with C and C++ standards, even if I don't use them every day.

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Re:Go is not an easy language by BenFrantzDale on Monday February 22, 2021 @07:41PM (#26232555)

I know the history, but I still think your comment was lumping them together unfairly in this context. With few exceptions, if you are writing `new` or `delete` you are doing C++ wrong in 2021 and that I would call C/C++ :-)

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Re:Go is not an easy language by pjmlp on Tuesday February 23, 2021 @01:11AM (#26234307)

It wasn´t my comment, rather OP's quote.

As for not using new and delete, I kind of agree, then again the only C++ GUI worth using has it over the place.

I rather see all those school kids learning Arduino to use new and delete than malloc() error prone size calculations, or dive into template errors due to the misuse of smart pointers.

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Re:Go is not an easy language by BenFrantzDale on Tuesday February 23, 2021 @10:50PM (#26246378)

Hopefully concepts will save us from cryptic error messages.

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Re:Go is not an easy language by c-cube on Monday February 22, 2021 @05:06PM (#26231312)

> C/C++ isn't a programming language, rather the abreviation for C and C++.

Maybe the abbreviation should be `C & C++` then :-). But I'm not sure if infix precedences allow it to work.

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