Re:C++ in Coders at Work
by danbmil99 on Saturday October 17, 2009 @02:39AM
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the point about everyone making their own sub-language is exactly right. In fact, I've heard programmers say that's exactly what they love about it.
Problem is, every shop is inventing their own subculture. When programmers who haven't worked together look at each other's C++, they're basically learning a new language.
I do think this has changed a bit in the last few years. The whole 'design pattern' meme exists primarily to create nexuses of style that programmers can gravitate to. It just seems like such a slow way home, especially in comparison to a language like Python, which goes out of its way to restrict the number of ways you can skin the cat.
Has any serious programmer ever looked at a Python file and said "wtf?" for more than a minute or two? And, has any experienced programmer not had the experience of looking at a new batch of C++ (say at a new job) and thought to him/herself, jeez, this is going to be a lot of work just to understand the basics of what they're doing?
Problem is, every shop is inventing their own subculture. When programmers who haven't worked together look at each other's C++, they're basically learning a new language.
I do think this has changed a bit in the last few years. The whole 'design pattern' meme exists primarily to create nexuses of style that programmers can gravitate to. It just seems like such a slow way home, especially in comparison to a language like Python, which goes out of its way to restrict the number of ways you can skin the cat.
Has any serious programmer ever looked at a Python file and said "wtf?" for more than a minute or two? And, has any experienced programmer not had the experience of looking at a new batch of C++ (say at a new job) and thought to him/herself, jeez, this is going to be a lot of work just to understand the basics of what they're doing?