What Good Are C, C++, and Java?
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What Good Are C, C++, and Java?
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Re: What Good Are C, C++, and Java?
#2Why not making this list open source? I mean, this is not complete at all and you won't be able to fill it in all on your own. Just my 2 cents :)
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#3> Also, does anyone know what EC2, S3, and Redshift are written in?
Well, Redshift is in C with some Python
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#4Why not making this list open source? I mean, this is not complete at all and you won't be able to fill it in all on your own. Just my 2 cents :)
I don't think it's meant to be a comprehensive list, just a reminder that languages that many people consider "dead" or just "old fashioned" are in reality quite pervasive and power up many of our daily tools and apps.
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#5One simply must admire the optimism of another who proposes to publish a list of desktop apps written in C++.
Meanwhile Javascript is "so ubiquitous that making a list seems a bit pointless."
:)
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#6We should also consider that a lot of popular interpreted languages -- Ruby, PHP, Python, JavaScript -- are implemented in 'boring' C/C++.
Abstraction is a beautiful thing, but we should not forget our roots!
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#7This is so kindergarten-level, I have no idea why it's on HN.
BTW, Stroustrup himself has a list of applications written in C++: http://www.stroustrup.com/applications.html
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#8I can think of a lot of things to call C++, but "boring" isn't really one of them.
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#9I can think of a lot of things to call C++, but "boring" isn't really one of them.
Established would be a better term.
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#10I once watched a video about languages by I believe the designer of F# (could be wrong). He talked about a graph with a horizontal axis measuring "elegance". On the right hand end is your highly elegant mostly functional languages. On the left hand side are the rugged languages like C++ very few people would call it elegant. However on the vertical axis is Utility. on the bottom are "not very useful at all", and at the top is "very useful". These languages are solidly in the upper left hand. The ultimate goal is to find something on the upper right hand side... but nothing has quite achieved it yet.