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copied!<p>Hear what Bruce Eckel { author of the two of the <strong>so-called</strong> best <a href="http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&ct=res&cd=8&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.mindview.net%2FBooks%2FTICPP%2FThinkingInCPP2e.html&ei=7R_rSbTDEoyJsAbyvZyOBw&usg=AFQjCNH76VGwE3vo7pXHye_fXySGioXihQ" rel="nofollow noreferrer">C++ books</a> } <a href="http://www.artima.com/weblogs/viewpost.jsp?thread=252441" rel="nofollow noreferrer">commented on C++</a> a few weeks ago:</p> <blockquote> <p>That said, I hardly ever use C++ anymore. When I do, it's either examining legacy code, or to write performance-critical sections, typically as small as possible to be called from other code (my preferred approach is to quickly write an app in Python, then profile it and if necessary improve performance by calling small portions of C++ using Python's ctypes library).</p> <p>Because I was on the C++ Standards Committee, I saw these decisions being made. They were all extremely carefully considered, far more so than many of the decisions made in Java.</p> <p>However, as people have rightly pointed out, <strong>the resulting language was complicated and painful to use and full of weird rules that I forget as soon as I'm away from it for a little while</strong> -- and I figured out those rules from first principles while I wrote books, not just by memorizing them.</p> </blockquote> <p>Additionally, you should read <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/352113/what-is-the-future-of-c-language-developers/">this thread</a> and <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/352113/what-is-the-future-of-c-language-developers/518222#518222">Danny Kalev's predictions on C++</a>.</p> <p><strong>However, the growing complexity of C++ will create pressure towards splitting the language into quasi-official dialects. We can already see this trend today; it will probably intensify in the future.</strong> </p> <p><strong>EDIT</strong>:</p> <p>You should take a look at this discussion, too:</p> <p><a href="http://www.velocityreviews.com/forums/t676282-anyone-else-feel-like-c-is-getting-too-complicated.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">C++ - Anyone else feel like C++ is getting too complicated?</a></p>

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