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Some of us don't quite have the luxury of fixing our tools (MSVC++ I'm looking at you). Considering the sheer complexity of languages like C++, it's unsurprisi

Some of us don't quite have the luxury of fixing our tools (MSVC++ I'm looking at you). Considering the sheer complexity of languages like C++, it's unsurprising that there will be problems here. I've been a blamer of tools as well, but I've convinced myself that it's ultimately wasted effort to do so. Better to simply come to terms with the fact that there do exist bad tools, that they ought to be avoided when reasonable, and that they should be used with care when necessary.

wglb 17y ago
Yes, tools as big as C compilers and C++ compilers are pretty hard to fix, but then there was an effort to "fix" this by starting LLVM and clang, etc. One might argue that pg is "fixing" lisp by starting arc, and that Rick Hickey is fixing Java (and some say Lisp) by starting Clojure. In my case, i "fixed" fortran by getting into compilers and learning other languages. So really "fixed" in this note I guess translates as "moved away from".