Taking C Seriously

Re:Taking C Seriously by cageface on Thursday November 03, 2011 @04:50AM (#3190873)

Then why doesn't somebody clue in Adobe, Ableton, Epic Games, Pixar, Valve, Google etc and get them to abandon their wicked C++-loving ways? If what you say is true in general then you could save a lot of the brightest engineers in the world a lot of headache.

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Re:Taking C Seriously by gte910h on Friday November 04, 2011 @03:11PM (#3197335)

The reason why games are written in C++ is because the gaming industry was sold on the idea in the mid 90's and now all the tools are written in it.

For low level systems work, C++ can be considerably more difficult than C to organize and port large programs.

It isn't "C++ is always worse than C" it is "C is often better than C++ for a given task, depending on task"

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Re:Taking C Seriously by aidenn0 on Thursday November 10, 2011 @06:58PM (#3222583)

Also, win32 is a C++ project. There are significant advantages to writing in the same language as the underlying platform.

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