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Defective C++

• okket 10y ago
  "revised 17 October 2009"
  • PaulHoule 10y ago
    Developments in C++ have been dramatic since then, but they haven't changed the core issues. For instance the lack of reflection, unstable interfaces, etc. I remember in the 1980s in Byte magazine and Dr Dobbs Journal seeing the statement that software components were a pipe dream and that is definitely true if there is no reflection or stable binary interfaces. The article grumbles about commercial influences but the original sin of C++ comes from academic influences, C++ is somebody's science project written as a preprocessor for the C language; much of the stupidity is not a conscious choice of language design but an accident of implementation. The worst thing about the C++ mafia is that they think that dealing with an incomprehensible language proves they are smart and that anyone who complains is intellectually feeble.
• Davidbrcz 10y ago
  Most of the facts are/were true but shown as big troll. There is nom attempt to understand why things are the way they are. Moreover several points are outdated by C++11/14/17