Ideas I would like to build / see built

Post by henning » Sun, Apr 11, 2010, 1:20 AM UTC

Post by mkramlich » Sun, Apr 11, 2010, 2:16 AM UTC

cperciva wrote: post #10

mkramlich wrote: post #9

I'd like to see also: a web browser, an OS, a "spreadsheet" (term I've coined, I'll explain in a follow-up post), also some sort of FPS, also some sort of markup format that's like HTML but not presentation-specific...also, I'd like a language like C but with classes. And, a pony. Thank you.

I'd like a language like C but with classes C already has classes. They're called structs. And methods are called function pointers.

Post by barmstrong » Sun, Apr 11, 2010, 2:37 AM UTC

Post by chime » Sun, Apr 11, 2010, 3:20 AM UTC

Post by cperciva » Sun, Apr 11, 2010, 3:51 AM UTC

mkramlich wrote: post #14

cperciva wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'd like a language like C but with classes C already has classes. They're called structs. And methods are called function pointers.

Disagree C has classes. No "class" and no inheritance or polymorphism. C++ and Objective-C have these things. But I understand what you're saying. There is the very well-known structs+functions technique which gives a partial stand-in for full OO. My post was meant to be funny yet true. I read the OA and thought all of the ideas he listed already exist, and was surprised it made the front page on Hacker News. Then I…

    struct child {
        struct parent p;
        // new variables go here
    }
    struct child foo;
    struct parent * bar = &foo;  // perfectly valid C