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Reminds me of JavaScript: The Good Parts by Crockford: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hQVTIJBZook https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hQVTIJBZook Strip away an o

by aazaa 6y ago

Reminds me of JavaScript: The Good Parts by Crockford: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hQVTIJBZook https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hQVTIJBZook Strip away an older language's bad features. You end up with a sub-language with the advantage of portability and better maintainability. The problem can be deciding (and agreeing on) which language features are good and which are bad.

gumby 6y ago
Except in this case they’re stripping away the new features.
teeray 6y ago
Came here to mention this. I had to learn C++ over the past few months, and have been looking for an analog to Crockford’s book.