No One Programs Any More

Re:No One Programs Any More by jcromartie on Friday October 24, 2008 @02:15PM (#342671)

My wife spent a few years in an aerospace engineering major, and I was quite confused when she ended up in a "C++ For Engineers" class. C++? Really? For engineers? They don't even teach C++ to comp sci students anymore.

Why not Python or something where they can just crunch numbers and write programs instead of learning how to navigate the minefield that is the C preprocessor and the C++ STL?

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Re:No One Programs Any More by jmatt on Friday October 24, 2008 @02:21PM (#342687)

software for embedded systems is still in C and C++ and that is generally what engineers care about when they are coding.

I agree it sucks, and it's too bad they can't move away from it sooner rather than later. Probably a great niche for any number of programming languages - if you can ever get the big multi-nationals and military to adopt it.

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Re:No One Programs Any More by rbanffy on Friday October 24, 2008 @02:57PM (#342765)

C is next to ideal for low-level programming. Its many traps and pitfalls are actually advantages in this scenario.

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Re:No One Programs Any More by Tamerlin on Monday October 27, 2008 @12:25PM (#345230)

"They don't even teach C++ to comp sci students anymore."

I've been wondering about that one for a while now, because throughout my career as a software developer, some of the worst programmers I've encountered have been people with comp sci degrees.

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Re:No One Programs Any More by run4yourlives on Friday October 24, 2008 @03:27PM (#342821)

For learning all the crazy and bad things you can do with programming languages, C++ can't be beat.

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