Re: C++ jobs down another 40%

From:
tanix@mongo.net (tanix)
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Date:
Thu, 24 Dec 2009 07:11:19 GMT
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In article <4b330c19$0$6733$9b4e6d93@newsspool2.arcor-online.net>, Christof Warlich <cwarlich@gmx.de> wrote:

Stefan Ram wrote:

      ?I wish the C++ people would wake up and realize that C++
      is drowning in its own complexity.?


I was rather frustrated when I realized that C++0x will neither be
finalized in this decade and, even worse, will not include Concepts.
Many programmers just deny using even well designed templates like BOOST
just due to the unfortunate error messages being printed when passing in
an incompatible type.

What's really needed is a real leap in C++ usability, offering its full
feature set to the experts while giving decent directions to the average
library user. Concepts would have been the first step, a new standard
library making use of Concepts the second. The final vision must be to
make C++ as save and easy to use as Python for every-day tasks while
still offering its full power to the dauntless expert.


Kinda.
Those "purists" tend to think that by inventing more and more of kinky
things, they somehow, magically, make the language more powerful and
more flexible.

One of the MOST important parameters of language for me
is to be able to read it as a read a news article, often skipping
the whole paragraps.

With all these great "improvements", I have to read it as a Bible
and think about every funky delimiter as if were a word of God.

TOTAL waste of my time.

I do not accept most of these notation perversions.

Instead of concentrating on those things that do seem the most
significant in the modern world, the concentrate on some kinky
things that will require 10 times more brain processing power
and heat generation from your scull, than it necessary to do
the same exact thing with the same exact results overall.

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