Interesting Comments On C++

[Frederick J. Harris]

It appears the tide has finally turned away from OOP, design patterns, templates, and several other hallowed C++ entities ...

http://c0de517e.blogspot.ca/2014/06/where-is-my-c-replacement.html

I wonder how many C++ coders are like myself and really code more with C-isms than pure template based propper C++?  I see comments to that affect more and more.  And that article flushes out in the open some of those ideas.  Many of the links given are also interesting. 

[Charles Pegge]

Interesting blog, and the comments too.

I think OOP is needed for dealing with multiple items: controls, particles and animations, but offers no advantage for implementing a program's core functions.

The natural extension of the OOP concepts is a database - with records and fields, we are back on familiar territory.