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Rather than resorting to ad hominem, could you point out where exactly Thompson was actually wrong? Moreover, the criticism by Thompson and Torvalds refers to
by hdjjhhvvhga 5y ago
Rather than resorting to ad hominem, could you point out where exactly Thompson was actually wrong?
Moreover, the criticism by Thompson and Torvalds refers to the use of C++ as a systems programming language. The language proved itself very efficient for application programming, including the browsers everybody is using.
- pjmlp 5y agoKen Thomson had no issues doing that when referring to Bjarne Stroustroup. He is completely wrong, because his comments reveals a complete lack of understanding how ISO works, or worse, he does understand it and is doing a malicious comment to transmit his biased opinion. Bjarne has the vote of one person, it doesn't matter how much he yells, screams, slashes the whip down the members back. It is one single vote, and above all, unless he has some dark magic powers, he cannot multiply himself to attend all voting sessions.
- cma 5y ago>it was just the union of everything that came along Garbage collection isn't in the language though some people wanted it. So it isn't a union of everything.
- emsy 5y agoNot in the mark-and-sweep variant but certainly as ref-counting. And not only once!
- pjmlp 5y agoActually it is, as API introduced in C++11, and yes Bjarne was one of those that opposed to it, if I remember correctly. However, since no one has made any use of it, and existing C++ GC's follow other schemes (Unreal, C++/ClI,...), there is a ISO C++23 proposal to remove it from the standard.
- account42 5y agoIt is not just Bjarne that opposed GC - no compiler implemented it (or not a major one anyway).