{"id":2251,"date":"2017-03-06T22:58:06","date_gmt":"2017-03-06T21:58:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/monodes.com\/predaelli\/?p=2251"},"modified":"2017-03-06T22:58:06","modified_gmt":"2017-03-06T21:58:06","slug":"main-weaknesses-of-c-as-a-programming-language-disadvantages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/monodes.com\/predaelli\/2017\/03\/06\/main-weaknesses-of-c-as-a-programming-language-disadvantages\/","title":{"rendered":"Main Weaknesses Of C++ As A Programming Language – Disadvantages"},"content":{"rendered":"

Main Weaknesses Of C++ As A Programming Language – Disadvantages<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

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Because the lack of different in brackets<\/strong> and parentheses<\/strong> on a regular keyboard, the syntax of modern C++<\/strong> <\/a>sometimes gets complex.\u00a0And not only for people, but for code highlighting too, which should tell us something.<\/div>\n
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Let\u2019s see:<\/div>\n
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<><\/b>: Template declaration and usage. And bitwise shift operators if used as << and >>, also overloaded as reads and writes into streams.This is for shifting on either left or right side. Before few years, back \u00a0these two use cases were being regularly confused by various compilers, and programmers had to receive extra spaces in complex templates.<\/p>\n

[]<\/b> : Array indexing. And lambda definition \/ capture list. Oh, and also Objective-C uses square<\/strong> brackets to send messages.<\/p>\n

{}<\/b> : Code blocks. Only code blocks, right? Wrong. Also initialization. And the modern idealize makes a heavy push towards {}-based initialization.<\/p>\n

()<\/b>: Construction of variables<\/strong>, definition\/declarations of functions, function calls. The first two cases can be disoriented in a remarkable fashion, and the \u201cissue\u201d still exists. \u00a0prepare for macros too. Ah, and casts (h\/t Nathan F Yospe<\/a><\/span><\/strong>).<\/p>\n

\/* *\/<\/b> : Comments. Unambiguous, right? Wrong. At times \u201c\/*\u201d can be a legal language construct extend the comment: int* pa = &a; int* pb = &b; int c = *pa \/ *pb, and we suddenly have a place where C++<\/strong> requires a whitespace among among operators.<\/p>\n

#if<\/a><\/b> \/ #endif<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n

On the one hand, I\u2019m happy C++<\/strong> folks are creating heavy use of existing semantics and are not accessing to reinvent the wheel. Haskell, Ruby, and F#, where the range of capability adding new operators is broadly used, often scare me by their syntax. C++<\/strong> won\u2019t be C++ if it starts using some \u201c@\u201d, \u201c=>\u201d, \u201c$\u201d, or \u201c<* \u2026 *>\u201d + \u201c(* \u2026 *)\u201d constructs.<\/div>\n
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On the other hand, if only we could use various pairs of brackets\/parentheses for program code and data initialization, for lambdas<\/strong> and array indexing, for function definitions and calls, and for macros, the language would read so much clear to my taste.\u00a0Too bad our keyboards<\/strong> and the ASCII<\/strong> table don\u2019t\u00a0proposal viable options.<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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