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| From | Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | comp.lang.c++ |
| Subject | Re: “Is C++ Dead?” |
| Date | 2026-03-18 16:41 -0500 |
| Organization | A noiseless patient Spider |
| Message-ID | <10pf672$75ro$1@dont-email.me> (permalink) |
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On 3/18/2026 4:24 PM, Scott Lurndal wrote: > Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> writes: >> On 3/18/2026 1:09 PM, Bonita Montero wrote: >>> Am 09.03.2026 um 23:36 schrieb Lynn McGuire: >>> >>>> If C++ is too complex for a programmer then the programmer is not >>>> a good programmer. >>> >>> I'm a good C++ programmer but I admit that C++ is much less readable >>> as for example Rust. And both languages server the same purpose. But >>> I still like C++. >>> >>>> The only exception to that is multiple thread software. That stuff >>>> is dadgum complicated. But the multiple thread software is not used >>>> very often in my circles. >>> >>> Most MT-algoritms are easy (embarassingly parallel). >> >> Spinning off threads is easy. Deciding which variables to mutex is not. > > As someone with four decades of multitheaded programming experience > at both the lowest levels (OS) and highest levels (applications), > I strongly disagree. > > It's very easy to determine whether a particular datum is > subject to concurrent access based on understanding the > underlying algorithms used. > >> Especially in software hundreds of thousands of lines of of C++ long. >> >> My Windows user interface is well over 500,000 lines of C++ code. > > Ah, windows. Sigh. > > My current project at work is over 3 million lines of C++ code, and > leverages 64 physical cores using over 120 threads (pthreads) > with pretty much 100% utilization across all the cores. Nice ! Good job. > The nice thing about C++ is that if you do it right, all the > locking is almost always encapsulated within a class (e.g. > a class member and associated member functions), which naturally > restricts the scope of the lock to within the class. It is always, "if you do it right". Lynn
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Re: “Is C++ Dead?” Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> - 2026-03-18 16:45 -0500
Re: Re: “Is C++ Dead?” scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2026-03-18 21:24 +0000
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