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Inaccuracies that could have been corrected by watching freely available CppCon videos: - Papers "written in a way that's deliberately inaccessible" - "I'd be
by mattnewport 8y ago
Inaccuracies that could have been corrected by watching freely available CppCon videos:
- Papers "written in a way that's deliberately inaccessible"
- "I'd be marginalized for not using template metaprogramming" - a major topic is how to get the benefits of template metaprogramming techniques without the ugly syntax that everyone dislikes.
- "I'd be marginalized for ... not knowing the new hotness by heart" - a major purpose of CppCon talks is to explain the new hotness.
- "it's led by academics who think the concerns of working programmers like me are beneath them" - the majority of speakers at CppCon and members of the standards committee are working programmers, not academics and none of them show any evidence of thinking the concerns of working programmers are beneath them, quite the opposite in fact.
And unicode is still insanely complex.
- foldr 8y agoNone of those is a statement about C++. They’re all fairly subjective statements about people’s thoughts and motivations. You may disagree with them, but you can’t seriously suggest that these statements are a fair basis on which to conclude that arandr0x is too ignorant of C++ to contribute to any discussion about the language. It's particularly discouraging to see you use someone's understandable nervousness about attending a conference as a basis to attack them for their "ignorance". Ironically, that just confirms that arandr0x is right to be a little nervous! If you transpose your attitudes to the complexity of C++ and the complexity of unicode (“you suck because you don’t understand C++” vs. “unicode sucks because I don’t understand it”), then you might see what arandr0x is getting at.