I find a lot of people who use high-level languages are terrified of tediously direct contact with the machine, and a lot of people who use low-level languages are terrified of the performance costs of abstraction. I'm terrified of both.
I think that in general, C++ is a lot harder to get your head around than C, being for all intents and purposes a superset, and an easily five times bigger one at that.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1622553
http://lukewelling.com/wp-content/uploads/2006/08/programmer...
I find a lot of people who use high-level languages are terrified of tediously direct contact with the machine, and a lot of people who use low-level languages are terrified of the performance costs of abstraction. I'm terrified of both.
I think that in general, C++ is a lot harder to get your head around than C, being for all intents and purposes a superset, and an easily five times bigger one at that.