In most discussions of the advantages of C++, an item that is frequently raised is the support for automatic destruction. This mechanism, which is used to reclaim resources used by a single object at the end of its scope, is the basis for a programming style popularly known among C++ users as RAII (resource acquisition…
C++ is a language that was created to improve some of the features and use cases of the C language, in order to make it easier to use for application development (instead of system programming, the main area dominated by C). One of the perceived problems in C is the lack of support for object…
A lot of money and energy was spent in converting or writing new software in C++ during the 80s and 90s. Even nowadays, when the leading commercial language is Java, there is a lot of effort spent in learning and using C++ in several areas where performance is considered to be an important asset. However,…