Timeline for Is there any reason to use C++ instead of C, Perl, Python, etc.?
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| Jun 16, 2020 at 10:01 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
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| May 13, 2013 at 11:32 | comment | added | Kokizzu | yep, std::string, QString, boost string algo and others are cool :3 but i like Ruby | |
| Oct 5, 2012 at 10:45 | history | edited | svick | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Sep 27, 2012 at 17:34 | comment | added | MrFox | +Tim Ring, some libraries make C++ string processing amazingly easy. After using QString for a while, I'm hard pressed to find Python's advantages in this regard. | |
| Jul 25, 2011 at 12:44 | history | made wiki | Post Made Community Wiki by user32315 | ||
| Dec 23, 2010 at 10:06 | comment | added | user11465 | I dont know why people have such difficulty with things like text processing in C/C++. Just use a library or write your own. Once you've written the low level functions (one-time pain) you gain massive performannce, tight code and greater flexibility. Yes, I'll use Python for quick/dirty command line utilities but for serious production code its C/C++. | |
| Dec 23, 2010 at 7:39 | comment | added | dan_waterworth | @Matt, that's a trick I like too. | |
| Dec 23, 2010 at 6:07 | comment | added | ShreevatsaR | Alex Stepanov saved C++ with STL. | |
| Dec 23, 2010 at 5:48 | comment | added | Matt Joiner | @dan_waterworth: Agreed. In fact I'll gladly wrap STL for custom containers to prevent C++ leaking into the rest of my source. The string handling in C++ is plain awful. I use C-style strings even in C++. | |
| Dec 23, 2010 at 0:15 | comment | added | John Bode | @Nils: On a scale of 1 to pain-in-the-ass, text processing in C++ is definitely worse than in more modern languages like Python. It's just that text processing in C defines pain-in-the-ass. If the choice is between C and C++ for that particular application, then C++ wins easily. | |
| Dec 22, 2010 at 23:28 | comment | added | Ferruccio | Boost is the only reason I still use C++. | |
| Dec 22, 2010 at 20:48 | comment | added | Nils | Heh I found especially text processing painful compared to let's say Python.. | |
| Dec 22, 2010 at 18:24 | comment | added | Mr. JavaScript | I'd like to echo Konrad's sentiment. +1 for strings. | |
| Dec 22, 2010 at 17:00 | comment | added | Konrad Rudolph | +1 for text processing, which I completely forgot about in my answer. | |
| Dec 22, 2010 at 16:27 | comment | added | dan_waterworth | STL is the only reason I ever consider using C++. | |
| Dec 22, 2010 at 15:47 | history | answered | John Bode | CC BY-SA 2.5 |