>Coding in C++ has been rightly described as the programming equivalent of using a chainsaw with all the safety guards removed. All the safety you enjoy in a managed environment like C# ... a few memory leaks here or there, a polite exception thrown, and that's about it. Not so in C++. The global heap, the stack ... it's all well within the errant program's reach. :-)
I always contended that if the OSes were written in something like Modula-2 we would be enjoying a much better world, and Oberon is a much cooler name than DOS :)
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"Premature optimization is the root of all evil in programming."
Donald Knuth, repeating C. A. R. Hoare
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