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The beauty of C++ is that you can define an arbitrarily small subset of the standard that work as simpler language of its own! Too bad not two projects can agr
by creshal 11y ago
The beauty of C++ is that you can define an arbitrarily small subset of the standard that work as simpler language of its own!
Too bad not two projects can agree which subset.
- DanWaterworth 11y agoSounds like someone needs to rigorously define a good subset then write a tool to verify that a program uses only that subset.
- lucozade 11y agoAs if by magic.... https://isocpp.org/blog/2015/09/bjarne-stroustrup-announces-cpp-core-guidelines https://isocpp.org/blog/2015/09/bjarne-stroustrup-announces-...
- bryanlarsen 11y agoWow, that's huge. It's what everybody's doing anyway, but being standardized with big names and heavy hitters behind it makes it much easier to advocate and argue for. Such an effort would be so much easier to advocate for in a C++ shop, and more importantly, very difficult to argue against. This deserves a proper HN discussion. I've resubmitted it, it missed the front page the first time around: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10545921 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10545921 (sorry for the karma stealing, lucozade totally deserves the karma if my resubmission takes off)
- creshal 11y agoI suspect it'll end like this: http://xkcd.com/927/ http://xkcd.com/927/