UNINTUITIVE C++
For the past few weeks, I have been pouring over a lot of C++ material trying to create a set of basic concepts that I could use to derive and reason out the others. But with C++, it just seems so tough. There are so many exceptions to expected behavior that it is really difficult to summarize the language. I was reading Scott Myers' Effective C++ book where he mentions that the book was actually a downgraded version of his idea of a tool that could enforce some guidelines and C++ principles so as to avoid basic pitfalls. I guess the non intuitive nature of C++ might have been one of the reasons why he gave up the tool idea. But I guess that is one of the charms of this great language.
For the past few weeks, I have been pouring over a lot of C++ material trying to create a set of basic concepts that I could use to derive and reason out the others. But with C++, it just seems so tough. There are so many exceptions to expected behavior that it is really difficult to summarize the language. I was reading Scott Myers' Effective C++ book where he mentions that the book was actually a downgraded version of his idea of a tool that could enforce some guidelines and C++ principles so as to avoid basic pitfalls. I guess the non intuitive nature of C++ might have been one of the reasons why he gave up the tool idea. But I guess that is one of the charms of this great language.
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