I've been programming in C++ for a little over a year, and according to you it's likely that I have yet to encounter any of the world-ending, flood-causing, tsunami stirring disastrous mistakes that you can make when writing C++. Which means, then, that none of these vague, non-specified horrors actually apply to a beginner. Right?
Wrong.
Just because you haven't seen the outcome of your mistakes does NOT mean you have not made them.
Welcome to C++ - when you do something wrong you don't always get tripped up on it.
Doesn't make what you did RIGHT it just means you've been lucky.
Does it sound vague as a reason? Yes.
Welcome to C++.
I haven't come across them yet, my life isn't a waking nightmare, and I enjoy C++ and coding games with it. So then how is it a bad language for beginners, exactly? I'll never understand this use of vague scare tactics to keep people from just trying the damn language out. Don't do it! There's stuff hidden! You're too stupid to make the mistakes, that's why you haven't made them yet!!!! Oh, well then I guess I'm all good then. And when I do make the mistakes, I'll probably do what you did: Learn from them.
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No, it is not a matter of 'being too stupid to learn from your mistakes' it is that C++ makes those mistakes hard to spot, hard to understand, vague due to the massive amount of 'undefined behaviour' which is allowed and more importantly makes the whole process of learning HARDER for BEGINNERS which implies, very heavily, that this is their FIRST language.
Which is why we advice against it and point out that C++ is a BAD language to start with - not that it is impossible but because you are making your life harder for yourself by trying to both learn to program AND learn to program around C++'s own vagueness and issues which is NOT helpful. C++ as a starting language WILL teach bad habits and WILL teach bad design - how do we know this? because we have seen it both in ourselves and many many times over the years.
Typical forum behavior. You see someone who's honest about their possible ignorance and try to inflate it to a size reasonable enough for you to discredit his opinions. Instead of arguing against what I say reasonably, you try to take away my voice by reminding me and everyone else that "You haven't been doing it enough yet to ruin everything." But as I've already shown, if I've been doing it a year and I still haven't encountered the horrors, that means beginners won't encounter the horrors until they're not beginners anymore. And even if I do find out something and want to switch languages, is that the death of my programming career? Is Java an entirely different world? Or Python? Or any other object-oriented language? Was my time spent with C++ wasted? Will I start from scratch? This is ridiculous.
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Yes, it is typical behavior of people who have more experiance than you in a subject.
You wouldn't take 1 year of a maths class and then declare that the maths behind QM is easy - nor to should someone who is, regardless of if your ego likes it or not, a beginner in the subject be saying 'oh, I've had no problems, it must be easy'.
Many people with many more years of experiance KNOW you are wrong by saying 'C++ is easy' so YES your lack of experiance IS important when giving advice to other people who are just starting out.
And no, it isn't rediculous it is advice given after years of experiance in both learning the language ourselves and watching others trying to learn it too. Your claim that it is easy and that everyone has to touch it at some point is the thing which is rediculous here.
(Also throwing around sentences like 'world-ending, flood-causing, tsunami stirring disastrous mistakes' in an attempt to make the person you are replying to look like they are over stating the problem is also rediculous and a tactic so transparent you'd have to be blind to not see through it.)
You want to learn C++? Fine. Great. Knock yourself out.
HOWEVER the moment you come here and claim it is 'easy' expect this reply because those of us who know better WILL take you to task on it because not doing so is a disservice to those who follow you and think 'oh hey, this random guy who has only been doing it for a year says it is easy so it must be!' and end up taking longer to learn to code than they might well have done with something like Python (and in many cases Python would have got them where they want to go faster and with less mess than trying to deal with C++).