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Personally, I think we have enough languages that are beautiful on the inside. And what does that mean anyway? What does it mean for a language to have "a skin"
by bad_user 14y ago
Personally, I think we have enough languages that are beautiful on the inside. And what does that mean anyway? What does it mean for a language to have "a skin"?
And C++ doesn't want anything by itself, as C++ is not a person, but an ugly spec with a bunch of ugly compilers written according to that spec and the funny thing about languages beautiful on the inside, is that such languages will never get rid of their heritage, nor will that heritage become less important.
And IMHO there never was and never will be a mainstream language more ugly than C++, being successful only because people wanted C with extensions and they got it. Sometimes I wish normal people knew what C++ was, because sometimes I have a hard time explaining what absolute ugliness is and the first thing that pops into my head is C++.
- hamidr 14y agoThe reason of not deprecating ugly features of c++ in new c++11 standard was the production codes in industry which still want to live.