>>305 See Ya C++? www.allpeers.com/blog/2006/06/02/see-ya-c/ > It’s painful to work with a language that requires clunky header files, > has a pitifully limited set of built-in types, doesn’t have proper > support for exceptions, has subtly different syntax and behavior > across platforms, etc. (complete with your own personal top ten > things you hate about C++). Particularly painful when you consider > the panoply of modern languages (Python, C#, Ruby, etc.) that have > corrected most or all of these weaknesses.
> What surprised me was not so much their dislike of C++ as a > language, which is understandable, but the contention that (exact > quote from the chat log) “if we were writing mozilla from scratch > now, I doubt we’d use C/C++ for the vast majority of it.”
