[TexasGator]

“Any language implemented with poor library managemrnt, where they just bind in the kitchen sink whether you need it or not. It doesnt have to be this way, but no one cares anymore. Nature abhors a vacuum. I demonstrated this with a version of Visual C++ a long time ago.”

Been a few years since I coded in C++ but my recollection differs from your posts.

[SunkenCiv]

I tended to program in AB (AppleSoft BASIC), which is, ironically, younger than C.

[Tell It Right]

I think he was referring to the "Visual" of MS Visual C++ adding a lot of run time overhead (.Net Framework stuff) compared to a C++ program that a lot of us first learned.

Today, you can still make a bare-bones C++ app (like we remember) in Linux with the g++ command-line compiler. I don't know if that's the case if you make a C++ app in the Eclipse IDE on Linux.