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Yes, there are ways around it, and the paper discusses one way Google addressed it. But that's not the point. It's used as just one example to illustrate why C/
by enneff 14y ago
Yes, there are ways around it, and the paper discusses one way Google addressed it. But that's not the point. It's used as just one example to illustrate why C/C++ is not ideal for working at Google's scale.
- cjensen 14y agoI agree there's much more to the paper, and it's well worth the read. Bounds checking, avoiding pointer arithmetic, garbage collection, and concurrency all make sense at Google's scale. I just think the bashing was misguided in an attempt to better justify adding a subset of Ada to C
- enneff 14y agoI think it's misguided to try and characterize Go as the addition of a subset of Ada to C. ;-)