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We will now call this "Stroustrupping": choosing a large number of incompatible goals and using a subset to defend any argument while ignoring the fact this sub

• mannykannot 10y ago
  To be clear, I am not suggesting that Stroustrup is being misleading in any way. I think the complexity is inevitable, given the goals, and I came to this view from asking whether there is one thing about C++ that leads to this complexity. Perhaps the closest thing to a single cause was the decision to make C++ a superset of C, which in turn leads to the use of naked pointers, arrays that do not know their dimensions, and to accessing arrays through pointers. Another issue may be separate compilation, which seems to complicate templates and polymorphism.