Dearest C++, Let Me Count The Ways I Love/Hate Thee

Dearest C++, Let Me Count The Ways I Love/Hate Thee

My first encounter with C++ was way back in the 1990s, when it was one of the Real Programming Languages that I sometimes heard about as I was still splashing about in the kiddie pool with Visual Basic, PHP and JavaScript. The first formally standardized version of C++ is the ISO 1998 standard, but it had been making headways as a ‘better C’ for decades at that point since Bjarne Stroustrup added that increment operator to C in 1979 and released…

Ada, other older languages vie for top spots in Tiobe language index

Tiobe CEO Paul Jansen says Ada, a system programming language whose initial development dates back to the late 1970s, could outlast similarly aged languages like Visual Basic, Perl, and Fortran in the language popularity race. In comments on this month’s Tiobe language popularity index, posted July 9, Jansen said the index has not seen much change among leading languages such as Python, C#, and Java over the past two years. But there is more mov…