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I am in discussion now with a colleague on the subject of c++/rust, so there will be greater clarity on that soon.

I should make this clearer. On the one hand, the art of unix programming claims that object-orientation only succeeds at solving certain problems by creating something sufficiently…

I am currently exploring languages, operating systems.. my conclusions so far are that the two fish in the pond are plan9, and oberon. I am also aware of Geoff Collyers criticisms …

Well, we basically agree on how I should go about it, which is good :-) Jehanne is now on my radar..

"Why?" Because of what Raymond said. He said two things that I remember fairly clearly: 1) If you have to resort to OO to solve your problems, you probably have another unresolved …

Greetings again.. I have now read more of the book on oberon, and confess that I lost traction. It seems very clear that he is using objects, and my bias against them is very stron…

"Should be cast in bronze" comes to mind.

To clarify, you obviously understand OO better than most, certainly much much much better than I do. I happen to have Wirth's book on oberon here, have started reading it. So possi…

OO is a big issue here. Or rather, in general. I have read "The Art of Unix Programming", where a very big fuss is made over object-orientation. It's like they want to take a reall…

"Simpler is not automatically better. If a language is too "simple" (i.e. minimalist), the complexity often shifts from the language specification to the application code, requirin…

Super helpful! Thank you!

Thanks!

..thank you.. I am very curious at the moment about why my post shows up a lighter shade of gray than others. I have done some searching, and apparently this can have something to …

Greetings, I recently came accross this thread from a few years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34501352 I am interested, in particular, by the comment by vidarh, that st…