Bjarne Stroustrup warns of dangerous future plans for his C++ (2018) (theregister.co.uk) 19 points by n-izem 7y ago ↗ HN
[–] dgemm 7y ago ↗ 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. [–] ncmncm 7y ago ↗ 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.
[–] ncmncm 7y ago ↗ 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.
[–] watergatorman 7y ago ↗ See: "Hints on programming language design" by C.A.R. Hoare Report Number: CS-TR-73-403 Stanford University, Department of Computer Science <CS-TR-73-403.pdf>Simplicity, readability, and so much more.
[–] watergatorman 7y ago ↗ See: Niklaus Wirth "On The Design of Programming Languages" Procedures of the IFIP Congress 74, pp. 386-393 <PLHistoryGoodDesign.PDF>
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[ 0.21 ms ] story [ 20.2 ms ] threadIt is hard to delete old cruft, although some of that is happening. But nobody needs to use the old stuff.
Simplicity, readability, and so much more.