Re: C/C++ question about dynamic "static struct"

From:

Juha Nieminen <nospam@thanks.invalid>

Newsgroups:

comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.c

Date:

Mon, 22 Oct 2012 08:17:05 +0000 (UTC)

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In comp.lang.c++ Les Cargill <lcargill99@comcast.com> wrote:

When C programmers have to resort to problems that might have been
relevant 20 years ago in order to make their case, I think that
demonstrates quite well that they don't have any *actual* argument.

This was much, much more recent than that. People are
*still running* 20 year old STL implementations...

And this affects me how, exactly? Why should *I* care? Why should I choose
C over C++ if some people are still running 20 year old STL implementations?

"The standard library cannot be used for this", is a rather weak
argument for why the standard library is not useful.

It's an explicit demonstration of the *dis*utility of it. Dunno
about you, but I don't get to point to that and say "abandon
hope", I have to go fix it.

I don't understand that at all. Since the standard library does not
offer a solution for every single problem in existence, it's not
useful? That's like one of the craziest arguments I have ever heard,
even from a C advocate (and that's saying quite a lot; believe me,
I have seen quite crazy stuff.)