C++ programming style

Question

I\'m an old (but not too old) Java programmer, that decided to learn C++. But I have seen that much of C++ programming style, is... well, just damn ugly!

All that stuff

Answer 1

Calling functions out of nowhere, instead of using methods inside classes; All that just seems... wrong!

So finally, is there any reason for me to continue with this massacre to the OOP

Well, calling functions that don't belong to classes isn't OOP -- it's procedural programming. Thus, I believe you're really having a difficult time breaking out of the OOP mindset. (Certainly C++ has many ills, but procedural programming isn't one of them.)

C++ is a multi-paradigm language, not just an OO langage. Templates are a form of generic programming which can be applied to procedural, OOP, and meta-programming paradigms of C++. With the next C++ standard, you'll see some functional paradigms added as well.

All that stuff of putting the class definition in a header file, and the methods in a different source file;

This has its origins from the C programming language, back in the 70's. C++ was designed to be backwards compatible with C.

The D programming language is an attempt to fix many of the ills of C++ (and as I said earlier there are many), but maintain the good features of C++ -- including all the various paradigms C++ supports: procedural, OOP, metaprogramming, and functional.

If you want to break out of the OOP mindset, try D! Then, when you get a feeling for how to mix and match the different paradigms, you can (if you so desire) come back to C++ and learn to deal with its syntax and other ills.

P.S. I use C++ daily and I am a fan of it -- it is my favorite programming language. But as any experienced C++ programmer knows, C++ does have its ills. But once you master the different paradigms and know how to work around C++'s ills, you'll have an incredibly powerful tool (for that is all a language is) at your disposal.

Good luck in your adventures!