Tom Brinkman wrote:
Those of us that started out learning C++ before ever learning C, have had to do lots of backfilling.
By learning C, what I mean is getting really good at pointer manipulations and managing memory yourself.
C++ encourages all sorts of programming practices that I wish I never learned and have never been very useful to me as a programmer.
Such as?
Sorry to say, but as a graphics programer, C++ is practically useless. Its all C.
Oh, cool so I am paid to do a lot of useless work. Nice. I do a lot of graphics programming (medical imaging), and have never encountered any C here (and most libs in the field are written in pure and reasonably modern c++), unless you count interfacing with OpenGL, which in my experience is also greatly helped by using C++ techniques like using RAII wrappers. From my perspective I never see mixed C/C++ projects, rather C++ and Lua or Python.
Because boost only meets the needs of C++ developers, it will continue to loose relevance.
I'm just saying what people are thinking.
... in your particular environment. Regards Fabio