Why should I learn C++?

[Silent1Mezzo]

So I've been programming for a while now. I'm fairly proficient in C, C# and Java. I know a bunch of scripting languages as well. Is there any reason for me to learn C++? I don't really know anything about the language.

What type of things is it good for? What can I do with it that I can't do with the others?


Thanks

[Savage]

So I've been programming for a while now. I'm fairly proficient in C, C# and Java. I know a bunch of scripting languages as well. Is there any reason for me to learn C++? I don't really know anything about the language.

What type of things is it good for? What can I do with it that I can't do with the others?


Thanks

If u know C then u have a good base for learning C++,C++ is simple said C superset.

Why should u learn C++?

U know C# is .NET oriented and C++ is COM oriented.Comput ers can run on .NET but some other scraps from metal can't run it while they can run on COM

Savage

[AdrianH]

If u know C then u have a good base for learning C++,C++ is simple said C superset.

Why should u learn C++?

U know C# is .NET oriented and C++ is COM oriented.Comput ers can run on .NET but some other scraps from metal can't run it while they can run on COM

Savage

I thought that C++ can be used with .NET. .NET is just a library after all. I also thought that C# can use COM as well, but may require wrappers.


Adrian

[AdrianH]

So I've been programming for a while now. I'm fairly proficient in C, C# and Java. I know a bunch of scripting languages as well. Is there any reason for me to learn C++? I don't really know anything about the language.

What type of things is it good for? What can I do with it that I can't do with the others?


Thanks

C++ is similar to C# and Java but has its roots in C. The family tree probably looks something like this:

---------------
|   Assembly  |
|       |     |
|       C     |
|       |     |
|      C++    |
|      /\     |
|     /  \    |
|  Java   \   |
|     \   /   |
|      \ /    |
|       C#    |
---------------

A reason to learn it? Flexibility is one, it also has some interesting features in it that you may find interesting like templates (slightly different from Java ones which came out only farily recently) and algorithms.


Adrian

[Savage]

I thought that C++ can be used with .NET. .NET is just a library after all. I also thought that C# can use COM as well, but may require wrappers.


Adrian

Now i'm confused.

Please take a look at this

Savage

[JosAH]

C++ is the only language where "(a+b)/c" *can* mean that a Btree is to be split
over c more blocks when a chunk b is added to a tree a. Or it *can* mean that
you've just shot the enemy; or maybe it's just an addition and a division ...

kind regards,

Jos

[AdrianH]

C++ is the only language where "(a+b)/c" *can* mean that a Btree is to be split
over c more blocks when a chunk b is added to a tree a. Or it *can* mean that
you've just shot the enemy; or maybe it's just an addition and a division ...

kind regards,

Jos

Hey, if a programmer want to be an idiot and use operator overloading to make code unreadable, that is his/her business (and will be put out of business quite quickly since no one will hire such an idiot).

Operator overloading has legitimate uses. It should be used sparingly.


Adrian

[AdrianH]

Now i'm confused.

Please take a look at this

Savage

So what are you confused about?


Adrian

[Banfa]

C++ is similar to C# and Java but has its roots in C. The family tree probably looks something like this:

I believe the family tree is more like the image I have attached.

Note that modern standard C and C+ are more like siblings than descendents, both have features taken from the other language.

[Tuanisviet]

I believe the family tree is more like the image I have attached.

Note that modern standard C and C+ are more like siblings than descendents, both have features taken from the other language.

I don't know C++, but isn't one advantage to using C++ is something like memory management or memory allocation? Please collect me if I'm wrong.

[AdrianH]

I don't know C++, but isn't one advantage to using C++ is something like memory management or memory allocation? Please collect me if I'm wrong.

It is an advantage and disadvantage. Unfortunatly, there is no memory managment in standard C++. You have to do it yourself, which can be good or bad (but when bad, really bad).


Adrian

[AdrianH]

I believe the family tree is more like the image I have attached.

Note that modern standard C and C+ are more like siblings than descendents, both have features taken from the other language.

Your diagram is better than mine. But I still think that Java came out of C++.

As for C and C++ being siblings? Dunno if I agree. C++ was first written as a translator to C (think CFront). Now, C and C++ are fairly different with the newer C99 standard. Though I think that C++ standard will be bringing them in to line.


Adrian

[JosAH]

Your diagram is better than mine. But I still think that Java came out of C++.

As for C and C++ being siblings? Dunno if I agree. C++ was first written as a translator to C (think CFront). Now, C and C++ are fairly different with the newer C99 standard. Though I think that C++ standard will be bringing them in to line.


Adrian

There's no Objective C in that little picture; it's somewhere near C++, also a C
descendant. Java has 'borrowed' quite some concepts from Objective C; just like
C# 'borrowed' ideas from Java; it's a pity only Apple and a bit of GNU uses it;
it's the poor man's SmallTalk using C in a very sensible way.

And there's more lacking in that picture: BCPL is a descendant from CPL which
in turn used a lot of ideas invented in the Algol (60 and 68) family. Assembly
language isn't a direct predecessor from BCPL, nor Algol; and then there's Lisp,
the assembly language for Artificial Intelligence. ;-)

kind regards,

Jos

[Banfa]

BCPL is a descendant from CPL

damn, new I'd missed something, although as it turns out I'd missed somethings.

In many ways no language descends from assembler, it was what was there, languages came about because assembler is not terribly easy to use, and of course has no cross platform portability.

[Banfa]

As for C and C++ being siblings? Dunno if I agree. C++ was first written as a translator to C (think CFront). Now, C and C++ are fairly different with the newer C99 standard. Though I think that C++ standard will be bringing them in to line.

I am sure that C++ chronologically came 2nd and I am aware that the first C++ compilers were actually translators to C.

However the diagram is meant to show how languages relate to each other intellectually (i.e. the ideas from which ones influenced which other ones) and from this point of view it is impossible to say Standard C++ descended from Standard C or the other way around, there has been quite a lot of interchange of ideas.