C and C++ are dead like COBOL in 2017I’m putting down a marker to counterbalance Daniel Lemire’s post, Best programming language for high performance (January 2017)?. Daniel concludes, essentially, that C and C++ still rule the category. I’ve written a lot of C/C++ criticism for a couple of years now. (OK, more ranting than writing.) Partly this is because I work in computer security, and C and C++ are so very, very, very bad for sec
