Re:The Hidden Cost of C++
by groby_b on Tuesday October 20, 2009 @05:56PM
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There's no difference in time or difficulty between looking up a C function and looking up a C++ member function, constructor, or destructor
There clearly is. In my hypothetical C example, there is one function I need to look up. In the C++ example, there are up to four classes:
* Anonymous constructor class
* Class for each in-parameter
* Class for the return value.
just normal programmers who are willing to learn the language features used in the code they're hired to work on
The problem is that the set of language features in C++ is huge. The issue is not programmers who don't want to learn, but programmers who haven't learned the whole language yet.
I can't solve that in the hiring process unless I exclusively rely on senior-level programmers. And those are hard to come by...
There clearly is. In my hypothetical C example, there is one function I need to look up. In the C++ example, there are up to four classes:
* Anonymous constructor class * Class for each in-parameter * Class for the return value.
just normal programmers who are willing to learn the language features used in the code they're hired to work on
The problem is that the set of language features in C++ is huge. The issue is not programmers who don't want to learn, but programmers who haven't learned the whole language yet.
I can't solve that in the hiring process unless I exclusively rely on senior-level programmers. And those are hard to come by...