Hi, Anton Shepelev!   
   I read your message from 19.12.2018 01:16   
      
    AK>> C has already died.   
    AS> The rumours of its death are greatly exagerrated. It is one of the   
    AS> most used languages with nary an alternative for embedded systems.   
    AS> Some major PC projects are developed in C: GIMP, DarkTable, Git,   
    AS> NetPBM (for which I have written several tools).   
      
   Probably these products were born long and long ago.   
      
    AK>> It is too obsolete to be in use.   
    AS> Why? Although Modula and Pascal are much better languages, they are   
    AS> not nearly as popular...   
      
   C++ is not a language for common people. It a language for writing big quick,   
   complex systems. In this area C is ten times closer to vulgar Basic than to   
   C++.   
      
    AK>> C++ has replaced it.   
      
    AS> C++ cannot replace C because it is a totally different language   
    AS> with an opposite ideology. C is a small, simple and minimalistic   
    AS> procedural language, whereas C++ is a huge, heavy and bloated   
    AS> object-oriented and multi-paradigm monster.   
      
   C is just an ancient programming language and now nobody, in a sober mind,   
   will make programs using it. Because it is just a bad form. C is used by two   
   reasons: you program a small controller and there is no C++ compiler   
   available. The second reason is when you are very old, you have a big ancient   
   working system, written in C, and there is no reason to touch it. The main   
   reason for such tired people is "don't touch it if it works" ;=)   
      
   C++ is a bright, logical continuation of C, developed by the best minds of the   
   world of the system programming. C++ incorporates novelties that allow you to   
   make much more complex, powerful and reliable programs than the ones written   
   in C. I repeat, that if a programmer has a choice he will never trade C++ for   
   C. It is nonsense.   
      
    AK>> The matter IMHO is that the assignment operator "=" is the most   
    AK>> frequent operator in C++.   
    AS> Seems true.   
    AK>> So it is was a sound idea to make it so short.   
      
    AS> I think that disciplied programmers have long ago agreed that   
    AS> readability is preferable to the utter paranoid brevity, so that   
    AS> the atoi() function would be better named as strtoint(), for   
    AS> example.   
      
   It is a question what is more clear: "atoi" or StrToInt. IMHO, the second   
   variant is more clear. Besides, C++ has many other elegant methods for similar   
   tasks. For instance, you can make "=" operator for any data type you use.   
      
    AS> Code is read much more frequently than it is modified, and   
    AS> modification itself requires extensive reading.   
    AK>> Besides, ": =b" looks like a fidonet smiley with the tongue out of   
    AK>> the mouth.: =b   
      
    AS> Do not cramp the operator and operands together, use whitespace,   
    AS> e.g.: a: = b;   
      
   Well, between a mouth and nose there is some space, indeed. := }   
      
   Bye, Anton!   
   Alexander Koryagin   
   english_tutor 2018   
      
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