Re: What has C++ become?

From:

James Kanze <james.kanze@gmail.com>

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comp.lang.c++

Date:

Mon, 9 Jun 2008 05:10:51 -0700 (PDT)

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On Jun 8, 10:58 pm, Walter Bright <wal...@digitalmars-nospamm.com>
wrote:

Ian Collins wrote:

On my last couple of C++ projects, I was fortunate to enough to be
responsible for both the build farm design and budget as well as the
software design. So neither problem arose :)

Wow, I didn't know people actually used build farms for C++!
How many lines of code was that?

And how many different versions does he need? If you have
separate debug and release versions, for each program, on each
target platform, you can easily end up with ten or fifteen
complete builds. And with enough templates in the header files,
it doesn't take very many lines of source code (less than a
million, even) to end needed a build farm, just to be able to do
a clean build over the week-end.

Or course, you usually have the material anyway. Just tell the
programmers to not turn their machines off when they go home for
the week-end.

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