Re: how to design a replacement for C++

From:
"Balog Pal" <pasa@lib.hu>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.c++
Date:
Sat, 24 Jul 2010 19:38:06 +0200
Message-ID:
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"Francesco S. Carta" <entuland@gmail.com>

Too bad you snipped the parts where I said that some of that content is
_bad_.


IMO more like too good -- we both know that your away speach is mere
notpicking on a randomly selected sendence, that is quite irrelevant wrt.
the content.

I've not dismissed it just because of its style: had it been more right
than wrong, I would have kept a reference to that website, but since it's
50/50 (at best) and since it's pretty bad style, I feel I can safely
dismiss it.


I'd be really interested how you calculated that 50% bad figure. Do you
think std::string is not a monster? That std::map is not broken in the
interface? That C++ lacks lots of undamental support for trivial things that
we struggle to cover with template magic with all its painful consequences
(what btw after stripping concepts is bound to stay for another decade?)

There are tons of more knowledgeable people that write in a far more
pleasant way, my spare time is limited by definition and I _have_ to make
a choice about what to read: wrong information, vulgarities and insults
tell me I can safely drop that source, whatever "right" things that source
could give me.


When I'm concerned about tinme spent on nonintertesting stuff, I start by
NOT writing about in in a forum. ;-)

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