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Re: Why I love C++ so much.


On Fri, 22 Feb 2008, Danilo Turina wrote:

> Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> > On Feb 21 05:26, Warren Young wrote:
> > > Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> > > > Really?  Show me an example which isn't much harder to understand than
> > > > the equivalent C code.
> > > template <class T>
> > > std::string foo(const T& x)
> > > {
> > >     std::ostringstream outs;
> > >     outs << x << and << maybe << other << stuff;
> > >     return outs.str();
> > > }
> > >
> > > (Aside: This looks pointlessly trivial, but it's a simplified version of
> > > real code in MySQL++ (http://tangentsoft.net/mysql++/).  It would just
> > > muddy the waters to talk about the reason MySQL++ does this.)
> > >
> > > To do that with C functions (maybe strto*() instead of printf()) you'd
> > > have to create a set of template specializations for every T you know
> > > about to call the right C function with the right arguments.  Any time you
> > > add to the list of supported T's, you have to add template
> > > specializations.
> >
> > Argh.  Using templates as an example for simplicity is somewhat daring.
> > Templates, liberally used, are a good way to make code unreadable.
> >
> > IMHO.
> >
> > FWIW.
> >
> > YMMV.
> >
> > YMCA.

"Young men, no need to feel down"...  That brings back memories. :-)

> C++ is like Unix, people that don't like it is because they don't
> understand it.

C++ is for people who want to be able to not just shoot themselves in the
foot, but do it with a rocket launcher.  Unix allows one to throw a
grenade under their own feet.  So yes, they are very similar.
	Igor
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