http://www.divideandconquer.se/2009/05/12/the-c-plus-plus-cut-is-the-deepest/ David's Software Development Blog Mon, 30 Aug 2010 06:11:13 +0200 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://www.divideandconquer.se/2009/05/12/the-c-plus-plus-cut-is-the-deepest/comment-page-1/#comment-480 Andy Dent Wed, 16 Sep 2009 09:40:34 +0000 http://www.divideandconquer.se/?p=400#comment-480 In my recent trip to Apple's WWDC I met two Symbian programmers who both roundly cursed the C++ subset and its SDK. Out of the random sample of probably less than a hundred people with whom I had lengthy conversations, I thought that quite telling. I also was amused by the Symbian foundation's desperate attempt to recruit on the first day - giving away free Nokia 5800 touchphones to any devs willing to come and listen to them explain the foundation for an hour. The lineup of programming languages was Flash Lite, J2ME and Python - no sign of C++! In my recent trip to Apple’s WWDC I met two Symbian programmers who both roundly cursed the C++ subset and its SDK. Out of the random sample of probably less than a hundred people with whom I had lengthy conversations, I thought that quite telling. I also was amused by the Symbian foundation’s desperate attempt to recruit on the first day – giving away free Nokia 5800 touchphones to any devs willing to come and listen to them explain the foundation for an hour. The lineup of programming languages was Flash Lite, J2ME and Python – no sign of C++!

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