McMaster University Creates Open Source eHealth Records System

[Andrej Marjan]

On October 13, 2009 02:37:33 pm Lennart Sorensen wrote:

> Yes C is much easier to write efficient code in.  C++ can (with a good
> compiler if you can find one) be made to do efficient code as long as
> you avoid most of its stupid features (which makes it mostly C anyhow).
> Java is just hopeless.  I suspect the main problem with java's performance
> is that there are an awful lot of bad java programmers.  It seems to
> attract them (or perhaps create them).  A good programmer could do a
> much better job given a better language.

Do you consider template metaprogramming to be "mostly C"? For instance there 
are portable numeric template libraries in C++ which are competitive with 
vendor-tuned BLAS, and much faster than anything you can create in C. 

Modern C++ isn't an easy (or pretty) language by any means, but it's come a 
long way since the early 90's. 
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