Go Programming talk [OT] - C is simple enough!???

[Alex Makhotin]

nobody wrote:
> Linus Torvalds shows his opinion about why he chooses C here:
> http://www.realworldtech.com/forums/index.cfm?action=detail&id=110618&threadid=110549&roomid=2 
> 
> 
> He wants a language that context-free, simple, down to the metal.
> He dislikes C++ b/c it has many abstraction.
> 
> I think some D experts should post some comments.

I think the context problem comes from the wrong understanding of the 
OOP. The C programmers when try to write C++ object-oriented code still 
continue to think in procedural and everything available(global) way. 
But, object-oriented way assumes the programmer to actually think in 
abstract manner.

Sure, when it comes to reading the C++ code of not mature C++ 
programmer, and who didn't adopt object oriented paradigm, who mix his 
past practical experience(and he knows it works!, why abandon it?) with 
OOP...
It's hard to understand what he means by writing inconsistent code.

Plus, adding poor documentation to this. Yes, to understand C++ code can 
be very difficult.

My opinion on the topic is that the abstraction comes at a cost of 
hidden implementation. Such hidden implementation must have good, proper 
documentation, or readable interface. If programming with OOP, the 
programmer must think in OOP, not C procedural way.

And few words about interfacing again.
When I agitate for the interfaces I usually mean by this: OK, your code 
is good at what it does and does it well(or you think it does well), 
give me proper and documented interface so that I can understand how to 
use it and apply in real life.
If you do not do this, I must read your code(oh no!) and understand how 
it works(isn't it the problem that your code is aimed to solve?!!), so 
that I make interface in my imagination(!) on how to use your code, 
eventually I will not remember all the imagined picture and therefore 
dissatisfy with the code, it can even drive me not to use your code any 
more, or C++ code in general.


-- 
Alex Makhotin,
the founder of BITPROX,
http://bitprox.com