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please stop linking this paper. it is too old, endlessly debated, and does a disservice to any precieved motive of promoting or demoting any of the mentioned la

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• syockit 10y ago
  offtopic: I've never posted any links on HN before, but is there no confirmation page upon submitting that tells you the link has been submitted before?
  • kornish 10y ago
    If you post the same link as someone else shortly after them, you'll just get redirected the current discussion page and I believe it counts as an upvote to the article. If sufficient time has elapsed since the last posting, HN allows links to be re-posted since peoples' viewpoints may have shifted, modern events may influence discussion, etc.
• partycoder 10y ago
  And C++ has come a long way since then. A long long way. It feels almost like a completely different language now.
  • _pmf_ 10y ago
    Template metaprogramming still sucks. And will keep sucking with concepts.
    • Const-me 10y ago
      For limited set of problems templates are fine, like char/wchar_t for strings, double/float for vector algebra, template containers, etc. Also there’re another evolved parts of the language that don’t suck. Such as the standard library: when the article was written, there was no STL _at all_.
  • atemerev 10y ago
    It would have been, unless the existence of the endless baggage of old C++ code to support and maintain...
    • partycoder 10y ago
      clang-tidy can be useful to modernize code. http://clang.llvm.org/extra/clang-tidy/index.html http://clang.llvm.org/extra/clang-tidy/index.html