Register your CV with eFinancialCareers to make yourself discoverable for C++ jobs in finance.Ĭontact: the first instance. Ian Joyner has done many things, including industry programming, systems programming, language and programming research and compiler development, networking, distributed system standards and lecturing. Systems programming and application programming are two very separate things, and C++'s real issue is that it tries to combine them both. Designing a programming language is very difficult, and C++ is simply not that well-designed. It is Strachey who is the real genius here in my opinion, not people like Bjarne Stroustrup, who now works for Morgan Stanley and who hacked OO into C to create C++, even though C wasn't a good base.Įither way, if you're trying to learn C++ and you're struggling to master it, it's not you that's the problem. In turn, C was based on B, which was based on Martin Richards’ BCPL, which itself was a cut down on Christopher Strachey’s CPL, which was too ambitions to be implemented at the time. It compromised on compiler technology, forever forcing programmers to take care of detail that should easily be done by a compiler. The problem is that C++ is based on C and C itself is not a brilliant language. Ken Thompson, the Bell Labs researcher who implemented the original Unix operating system, described it as a " bad language" that's " way too big, way too complex" and " obviously built by a committee." Damningly, Thompson also said that C++ does, "a lot of things half well" but is "just a garbage heap of ideas that are mutually exclusive." So not only is C++ technically bad, but it is culturally bad since it appeals to the ego, rather than the intellect.
C++ just supports the intuitive and populist thinking instead of trying to fix it. That seems hard to understand and counter to people’s intuition. Programming is about programming and not about hardware machines (programs run on theoretical machines).
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