Recent content by pdusen

I know this wasn't your overall point, but for the record: I hear this a lot, but I have seen no indication that it is really true. As long as you have competent programmers and intelligent library selection, you can develop fairly rapidly in C++, or any other language. With bad programmers in...

If any of the big companies were as confident as you about that, it would have been done a long, long time ago. Besides, that sort of suit might be just what would trigger a massive patent war. As for those companies "paying up", I don't see it. So far, HTC is in litigation, and Canonical is...

And when do you expect this to start kicking in for all of the distros that have been around for over a decade?

I'm well aware of that (I'm actually an Ubuntu user as well), it's just that a frequently have to use Windows for many tasks, and since I've never had anything not work in 64-bit (Linux or Windows), I pretty much do 64-bit everything.

It's a simple cost vs. benefit problem. All it costs me to run 64-bit Windows/Linux is exactly what it would cost me to run 32-bit Windows/Linux (I have personally never encountered any problems running any of my apps). On the other hand, if I stuck with 32-bit, I wouldn't be able to use a...

Hear, hear. Installing any operating system is a chore, Linux or Windows. The idea that Windows is any easier to install than Linux is a myth.

I don't think anyone was arguing that C++ was a good choice because it's important to learn memory management. I certainly wasn't. Actually, no reasonably well-done software project using C++ should be using manual memory management at all (anymore). Smart Pointers are pretty much ubiquitous...

That's interesting. I'll have to look into it.

Oh really? [root@Ares pdusen]# pacman -Sy chromium :: Synchronizing package databases... core is up to date extra is up to date community is up to date archlinuxfr is up to date resolving dependencies... looking for inter-conflicts... Targets (1): chromium-4.0.249.43-1...

http://www.cppreference.com/wiki/ It's all there.

I assure you, I read the OP. The fact that you have a different opinion means nothing.

C++ does all of those things, if you use the STL.

If he's a beginner programmer, he should be writing beginner programmer programs (Hello World, Counting Change, etc...), none of which requires pointers or classes. As for your claim about error messages: Yes, C/C++ error messages aren't the greatest, but there's nothing terrible at the...

I'm looking forward to it primarily for all the C++0x features being added (MS is being surprisingly agile about that.)

I agree that you should start with C++. It is a bit challenging, but programming is _supposed_ to be challenging. In my experience, people who start off with more abstracted languages (BASIC, Java, etc...) tend to have a hard time understanding what is going on under the hood down the road...