From our study of C++, it should be clear that, unlike class encapsulation and single inheritance, which were essentially free in C, polymorphism in C involves some complexity and overhead. In the ...

Civilization will wholly embrace atomic time; and the difference, or tolerance, between atomic time and Earth time will go unspecified until timekeepers come up with a better plan for reconciling ...

"Speaking of languages, it's time to halt starting any new projects in C/C++ and use Rust for those scenarios where a non-GC language is required. For the sake of security and reliability.

Runtime errors occur when something goes wrong in the normal execution of a program. When severe enough, these errors abruptly terminate an application. To help programmers both anticipate and recover ...

This enables dynamic (run-time) polymorphism, where the referred objects can behave differently, depending on their (actual, derived) types. C++ ... difference in the number or type of parameters ...

It improves on current languages targeting this space by having a number of compile-time safety checks that produce no runtime overhead ... is written with an Ada/C++/C#/Java background, and ...