Fine by me, pick your latest toy language and demonstrate how you can write a toy webserver in 3 lines or a Fibonacci calculator in 3 characters.
When you need to get some real work done give me a call - I just put my rates up.
When you need to get some real work done give me a call - I just put my rates up.
I could have done that in C, but C++ seemed nice at the time, so I used it. Finally, after debugging obscure runtime issues and memory leaks it dawned on me that the program was ok, I just wasn't competent enough in C++ to do this quickly and error-free. So, bit by bit I started to get rid of the OO features, the program became faster, and more reliable. When it was back down to bare-to-the-metal 'C' with C++ comments it ran faultless, and it has been doing so for well over a decade now.
The webcam software was a different story, because it had to run on the microsoft platform it had to be in C++, fortunately Borland C++ builder was an excellent environment, and I never regretted using it instead of using C. The GUI features of C++ builder made life a lot easier.
My 'take home' was if you have to use C++ be very careful and use as many quality libraries as you can find so you don't end up spending a lot of time chasing obscure bugs.
And if it is systems level stuff, stick to C.
A fibonacci DSL could do it in 1; if all input is expected to be an integral value and the machine only computes fibonacci values, then typing a single digit number would have the intended consequence:
(loop
(print (fib (parse-integer (read)))))