Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!usenet.pasdenom.info!gegeweb.org!newsfeed.kamp.net!newsfeed.kamp.net!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Ian Collins Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++ Subject: Re: Why use C++? Date: Tue, 16 Aug 2011 21:25:00 +1200 Lines: 36 Message-ID: <9aurbcFgq5U5@mid.individual.net> References: <2c692ece-a34b-470c-b70e-caa346792fb1@c19g2000yqe.googlegroups.com> <9ao5lkFdeuU4@mid.individual.net> <4f633261-5b9d-4547-b731-f9e955964584@k3g2000vbz.googlegroups.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: individual.net HNhfJcMXZv+/G63JG+6pLA2bnXDDS/ZLZKXkJgBzwU0LnmuEQT Cancel-Lock: sha1:9EryGDdfPksVIMIxMxudxAEzk7Y= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; SunOS i86pc; en-US; rv:1.9.2.9) Gecko/20101021 Lightning/1.0b2 Thunderbird/3.1.4 In-Reply-To: <4f633261-5b9d-4547-b731-f9e955964584@k3g2000vbz.googlegroups.com> Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.lang.c++:8895 On 08/16/11 09:10 PM, Nick Keighley wrote: > On Aug 13, 9:38 pm, Ian Collins wrote: >> On 08/14/11 03:37 AM, Miro wrote: >> >> >> >> >> >>> On Aug 7, 1:09 am, "Paul" wrote: >>>> "Miro" wrote in message >> >>>> news:fb9f787c-af06-427a-82b6-b0684e8dcbc5@s2g2000vby.googlegroups.com.... >> >>>>> I've made the title too provocative. What I mean is, why use C++ for >>>>> small (> 1000 lines ) coding jobs? >>>>> It doesn't make much sense to me as... >> >>>>> C++ syntax requires a lot more typing, debugging and memory, >>>>> Compilation time can be irksome, >> >>>> Compared to what? >> >>> Well, as I said before, Python, Ruby or Perl (We Perl People like >>> giving our language nicknames. It helps us forget that it's a total >>> mess.) Basically, any of the common scripting languages found in the >>> Programming world. >> >> How can a compiled binary require more memory than a script + its >> interpretor? > > interpreted languages can be very space efficient You forget the space used by the interpreter -- Ian Collins