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C++ Ease of use, never heard of it.

I was doing some C++ hacking today, and I added the traditional:

#ifndef MYINTERFACENAME_H
#define MYINTERFACENAME_H

preprocessor magic in my .h file and it occurred to me: normally I don't even question having to type such nonsense in C++, I just live with it. Exploring this train of thought more completely, I realized that C++ has never gone through a concerted ease-of-development effort as Java has been going through over the past few years. Why is that? Is it because Mr. Stroustrup doesn't care about the corporate developer? Is it because no one company is betting its future on the success of C++, and therefore there is no need to expand the ranks of the developer?

Comments

• Don't worry,
  We hope to have Java as easy to use as C++ by Java 6.

  Posted by: refux on March 21, 2005 at 10:34 AM

• Hey Ed!

  I too have found corporate development to actually contradict some patterns/methodologies pressed by Fowler or any other article author. I wrote a bit on this subject here:
  The Corporate Developer

  I've been finding that what works for Java patterns (true domain models for example) fall apart within the corporate environment where you end up writing code that needs to behave differently across multiple applications.

  Cheers!

  Posted by: jhook on March 22, 2005 at 11:32 AM

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