Re: How would I stop implicit type conversion
kwikius wrote:
Earl Purple wrote:
Not really, although sometimes I feel that they make programmers like
me redundant.
I don't really see why that should be.
Some of us happen to be reasonably good at writing utility libraries
but don't necessarily have a lot of business knowledge. I guess if I
learn all of boost I will have a big advantage in being able to apply
all this, although I doubt I'll be attending any interview anytime soon
where they test me on boost libraries. (I know, I might have said the
same about STL).
Where I work now, which is quite a large worldwide organisation (but is
not a software company), very little development is done in C++ now.
Java is by far the most popular language and C# has taken over as the
GUI language for Windows.
As for the comment about "experimentation with templates", the question
is how really useful some of these features are. Do we really need
enable_if? Is anyone in management going to make a design decision to
use C++ rather than a different language because it has enable_if ?
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