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A Case Against C++

Type
Video
Tags
C / C++
Authors
Felix von Leitner
Event
Chaos Communication Camp 2007
Indexed on
Mar 27, 2013
URL
http://dewy.fem.tu-ilmenau.de/CCC/CCCamp07/video/m4v/cccamp07-en-1951-A_Case_Against_C%2b%2b.m4v
File name
cccamp07-en-1951-A_Case_Against_C%2b%2b.m4v
File size
108.3 MB
MD5
4c9c53f9867404ece6e84fc8a9a6ef1c
SHA1
c4a55aa6ea4e4ba324fead12e854dda416bfbab8

The selling points for C++ are mostly focused on how it supposedly makes it easier to write code. This talk will argue that it is much more important to make code easy to read, and in that respect C++ is a huge regression compared to C. The talk is mostly from the perspective of a professional code auditor. The point of the talk is to get people to think about how others (and themselves!) will have to read and understand the code in the future. This point is also true for other programming languages, so this is not just about C++ bashing, it is about showing what coding style is good for future generations and which will just get you in trouble. The examples will mostly be C++, obviously, but people from other programming languages might learn a thing or two from the talk, too.

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