CompuServe Messages

Try as I might, I'm still no fan of C++, either. And I recently saw a news item that computer guru Ed Yourdon has been more vocal against it, too. Demand for it has leveled off. I think one big drain in C++ is the malloc/free library in most compilers. They're so darn slow and degrade in performance over time (the first call to malloc() takes N time, the 10,000 call takes 100xN time or worse). With all those automatic "new" operators in C++ code, programmer forget that there's a malloc() in there someplace.