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Manuel Simoni's blog about programming (languages).
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- When somebody uses the word 'natural'
- When I can no longer tell whether my implementatio...
- When I read a blog post by Robert Harper
- When everybody hypes a language that I find crap
- When a new language doesn't get lexical scope right
- When I heard of Dart's type system
- When I hear they're adding features to C++
- When I finally grokked delimited continuations
- When it comes to my mind that the 1990s project of...
- When I'm about to replace an important subsystem i...
- When somebody says 'but Clojure will bring more pe...
- When I see that Ruby's parser is 10,000 lines of C
- When somebody tries to explain JavaScript's protot...
- When I see that a new language makes a difference ...
- When I mention first-class environments and fexprs...
- When I try to structure data in Scheme
- When a language designer talks about their ideas o...
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5 comments:
Wait, really? This is the first thing I've ever seriously disagreed with on this blog. I understand that one of C++'s biggest problems is just how big it is, but a lot of the features (lambdas, range-based for loops, smart pointers) only make the language easier for newcomers. I only list those 3 because they're the one's I've found to be all but indispensable now that I've gotten used to them.
Next: On hearing that several implementations of C++11 already exist... :)
Just love how they add features to "simplify" the language.
@dmbarbour: haha, my thoughts exactly
@dmbarbour: Most of the practical complexity of C++ is not in the language itself but in the knowledge of how to use it safely — all languages require this, but C++ requires an unusually large amount. If new features reduce this enough, they could be a net simplification. For example, adding lambda (even a crippled demi-lambda) means users don't have to know how and when to work around its absence.
I don't think this will work very well for C++, though, because there's so much old code that everyone has to know how to maintain, and because the language is already so complex that many users won't learn the new features.
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