Bjarne Stroustrup warns of dangerous future plans for his C++ (2018)

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Post by n-izem » Tue, Jan 29, 2019, 7:02 PM UTC

Bjarne Stroustrup warns of dangerous future plans for his C++ (2018)
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Re: Bjarne Stroustrup warns of dangerous future plans for his C++ (2018)

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Post by dgemm » Wed, Jan 30, 2019, 3:51 AM UTC

This language has been bolting on every trendy new thing in computer science for over 30 years. To be on-theme, I think that ship has already sailed.

Re: Bjarne Stroustrup warns of dangerous future plans for his C++ (2018)

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Post by ncmncm » Wed, Jan 30, 2019, 6:19 AM UTC

dgemm wrote: post #2

This language has been bolting on every trendy new thing in computer science for over 30 years . To be on-theme, I think that ship has already sailed.

Yet, somehow, programs in C++17 are nicer than in 14, or '11, or '03, or '98, and using it gets more fun each round.

It is hard to delete old cruft, although some of that is happening. But nobody needs to use the old stuff.

Re: Bjarne Stroustrup warns of dangerous future plans for his C++ (2018)

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Post by watergatorman » Wed, Jan 30, 2019, 1:53 PM UTC

See: "Hints on programming language design" by C.A.R. Hoare Report Number: CS-TR-73-403 Stanford University, Department of Computer Science

Simplicity, readability, and so much more.

Re: Bjarne Stroustrup warns of dangerous future plans for his C++ (2018)

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Post by watergatorman » Thu, Jan 31, 2019, 1:33 AM UTC

See: Niklaus Wirth "On The Design of Programming Languages" Procedures of the IFIP Congress 74, pp. 386-393