Timeline for Is there any reason to use C++ instead of C, Perl, Python, etc.?
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| Jan 24, 2014 at 1:16 | comment | added | jpmc26 | Am I reading this wrong, or does this basically say, "Quality through un-usability"? Would explain why Linux and git don't seem to have much concern for user experience. | |
| Aug 4, 2013 at 23:52 | comment | added | sowrov | Can Mr. Linus or some of his followers give some example on how C++ make things horrible? Above @ttsiodras showed in his answer how C can make simple thing horrible but I am yet to see the other way around. | |
| Sep 28, 2012 at 19:50 | comment | added | comingstorm | The big benefit of C++ is support for large-scale programming. The top Linux guys provide this support by hand and brain and careful organization of their codebase and their development process. They are disciplined, their quality control is merciless, and if you don't like it they don't have to deal with you. So the Torvalds quote makes sense in context -- they're weeding out all the people who think you can't do that in C... | |
| Dec 18, 2011 at 15:09 | history | edited | Matthieu | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Aug 2, 2011 at 18:45 | comment | added | Jeremy | @Jonathan, I would gather that part of being a genius is thinking outside the box, and not caring about what other people think. I suppose that some personalities express that trait by being an asshole. This is pure speculation, of course. | |
| Jul 25, 2011 at 12:44 | history | made wiki | Post Made Community Wiki by user32315 | ||
| Jun 21, 2011 at 15:35 | comment | added | Dmitri | @Onema "C++ is only as bad as the people who use it." I think that was actually Linus' point. And as far as "pushing the boundaries" go, getting a Unix to run on an i386 seems pretty adventurous. Doom, Quake and Wolfenstien ran fantastically great on Linux. Still do. | |
| Jan 20, 2011 at 10:30 | comment | added | Konrad Rudolph | @bromfiets According to himself, it is: “I'm an egotistical bastard, and I name all my projects after myself. First Linux, now git.” Source: git FAQ | |
| Dec 27, 2010 at 5:34 | comment | added | Nathan Osman | I am right up there when it comes to loving Linux, but honestly, I have to disagree on this one. C++ is only as bad as the people who use it. There's nothing inherently wrong with it itself. | |
| Dec 23, 2010 at 9:40 | comment | added | Oliver Weiler | I hate this little stinker ;-). | |
| Dec 22, 2010 at 23:21 | comment | added | Onema | I agree with @Daniel, If there is someone that can talk about pushing the boundaries of hardware is John Carmack creator of doom, quake and other games and founder of Id software. He writes this about c and c++ on a twitt a few months ago: "IMO, good C++ code is better than good C code, but bad C++ can be much, much worse than bad C code." twitter.com/#!/ID_AA_Carmack/status/26560399301 | |
| Dec 22, 2010 at 22:48 | comment | added | ubiyubix | @Felix Best comment so far. I guess he named "git" after himself. | |
| Dec 22, 2010 at 22:29 | comment | added | Daniel Huckstep | Linus makes good points here and there, but as others have said, C is not the end all winner. Best tool for the job I always say. With C++ you can end up with some really nasty stuff though. @Nils I used to work for BioWare, and games really push C++ to the edge. Think of a C++ feature, and it's probably used somewhere in there. | |
| Dec 22, 2010 at 22:27 | comment | added | user7938 | Linus has a point but expresses it way too harshly to be taken seriously. | |
| Dec 22, 2010 at 20:46 | comment | added | Nils | Linus does kernel development what about other systems? The game industry seems to like C++, I wonder how many C++ features are actually used in games. | |
| Dec 22, 2010 at 17:09 | comment | added | Bob Murphy | Linus reminds me of a very talented roofer who's never hung sheetrock, but calls the sheetrock guys pansies because they use screws instead of nails. | |
| Dec 22, 2010 at 15:40 | comment | added | Felix Dombek | Haha, that was a good laugh. I never want to meet this guy. | |
| Dec 22, 2010 at 14:58 | comment | added | Jeremy | @Konrad: I know. It was more anecdotal than anything else. | |
| Dec 22, 2010 at 14:55 | comment | added | Konrad Rudolph | I don’t think Linus should be the guy to go to for arguments here. His rants are horribly subjective and immature. He actually does have a few good points but they are so deeply buried (below “bullshit” as well as bullshit) that they are very hard to find. | |
| Dec 22, 2010 at 13:55 | history | answered | Jeremy | CC BY-SA 2.5 |