C and C++ are used for job security. Hire a programmer to write your business's program in C/C++ and you basically signed a 20 year contract with him because you'll have to continually pay him to fix whatever mem leaks or buffer overflows crop up 2 yrs down the line in specific edge cases that are significant enough to lose your business money.
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Anonymous2015-11-26 6:23
Java is a significantly better language than Sepples. That's saying something because Java sucks balls. I still would rather write any nontrivial program in Java over Sepples obviously, Python, ruby, bash, scheme, and cl. All languages are toys compared to Java and maybe .NET. Honestly no one will write a program these days in C++ unless they have absolutely no choice && are being paid for it (which rules out most of this forum).
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Anonymous2015-11-26 6:40
Java is a baby crib for ENTERPRISE DEVELOPERS so that they don't puke on anybody else's clothes. However, it does serve that purpose well.
Python, Ruby, Bash, Scheme, and CL are all light years beyond Java in terms of what any sane individual would prefer to use given the choice.
Can't you basically do everything in C++ that you could do in Java, and then some?
That's the problem. If you do something in C++ that Java doesn't support, it'd have to say "Lol, can't do that!", or do the asm.js shit and give you an insecure byte array to have the same problems in as your normal C++ address space.
>>18 Interpreting source code or compiling source code is not particularly meaningful. Whether source code is interpreted or compiled is simply a matter of implementation.