This is a continuation of my thoughts about how the ideas of object oriented programming (OOP) have changed over my time.
I am comparing the OOP applications and ideas that I was taught early in my life against my relative recent “discoveries”. These differences are reflected in the designs of …
Safer C: Developing software for high-integrity and safety-critical systems. Les Hatton. // McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1995. ISBN 007707640-0, 229 pages.
The book, despite being ~30 years old and talking about the first ISO C standard, is a goldmine when it comes to more timeless topics of quality and using programming languages …
I am not a great C++ fan: the language is overly eclectic, and, what is worse, it has an army of zealots unaware of alternative approaches to SW design, like multi-language paradigm.
But, if asked of just three things that make C++ a better base for writing stuff than plain …