Re: Garbage collection in C++

From:

James Kanze <james.kanze@gmail.com>

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comp.lang.c++

Date:

Fri, 21 Nov 2008 02:32:36 -0800 (PST)

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On Nov 20, 7:11 pm, Matthias Buelow <m...@incubus.de> wrote:

Chris M. Thomasson wrote:

Seriously... Why do you think they choose C++ for their custom
web-server's, indexers, file-systems, databases ect...?

First, I don't know if what you say is true. Second, I have no
clue. Probably for a similar reason why I'm programming in
C++; that's not because I like the language.

Yes. Often, the choice is really only between C, C++ and Java
(with maybe a possibility of Fortran thrown in on the side).

Still, when push comes to shove---I don't really like C++ that
much, but I like the other languages I've seen even less. C++
seems to lack simplicity and elegance; the other languages lack
expressivity. And with enough expressivity, it's possible to
hide the lack of simplicity and elegance.

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