Re: C++14: Papers
James Kanze wrote:
With the major difference that there doesn't seem to be any new
competition. C++ seems to have beat out Ada-95, and in a more
distant past, Objective-C and Modula-3, but since then, there's
not really been any new language which realistically attempts to
replace it. If something new does come along, that is to C++
what Python is to Perl, I'd jump on it, but I don't see it
happening. In the case of C++, the total is simply too large:
in the time it would take to redesign a new language with all of
the expressivity of C++, but clean, simple and elegant, C++ will
have added new functionality that are missing in the new
language.
That's really sad; I can only hope your analysis is wrong. I remember the
elation I felt as a Fortran programmer when I first used Algol 60. So THIS
is the way the grown ups do it; it was such a rush! C++ is so obviously a
group effort, with no discernable philosophy, the damned thing just grew and
grew and it is still growing. We have ridiculous brevity, '%' means modulo?
Give me a break. And that is mixed with monstrously long identifiers in STL
that would be very much at home in COBOL All that in one language?? . And
in an era in which GUI is THE way to interface with humans, an add on
library is needed to write a real program. Oh, this program is written in
C++ with the whatchamacallit GUI. You three guys leave the room while we
discuss this problem.
Just pathetic, really. This disgusting piece of crap is the best the human
mind can come up with?