Quite an interesting thread. I will not talk too much about C++, the last time I used it really (I mean with a real object orientation) for a serious purpose was about 18 years ago. I don't remember so much about it, and I was never an expert in the area anyway. I have continued to use C++ compilers more recently, but more as an implementation of C with additional features that simplified or solved some of the malloc/free/Null_pointer/SegFault/CoreDump etc. memory allocation problems in pure C. And even that subset of C++, I haven't done any of it since 2005 or 2006, I guess (to a certain extent because I had discovered Perl in between and found that it did fit the bill of what I needed far better). Therefore, I am not (or at least no longer) qualified to seriously talk about C++.

But I moved from another OO language (Python) to Perl about 11 years ago, so you might have some interest in what I wrote about two months ago on the subject: Re: Migrating from Perl to other language? Why would someone do that?. Just in case this is not clear, I should say that I am not criticizing OO programming in any way here, I mentioned OO just because it is a common top feature of both C++ and Python.

In reply to Re: Jumping ship from C++ by Laurent_R
in thread Jumping ship from C++ by morelenmir

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