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[Andrei Alexandrescu]

On 5/31/12 2:12 AM, foobar wrote:
> On Thursday, 31 May 2012 at 08:01:14 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>> On 5/30/12 11:47 PM, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
>>> On 2012-05-30 21:10, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>>>
>>>> I see how these can be annoying, but they're not the result of us not
>>>> designing things. We designed things best we could.
>>>
>>> I would say it's not good enough. The whole approach of designing the
>>> language is wrong.
>>
>> I understand how frustrating this is. In fact even the way you
>> consider "good" is not nearly good enough. What we need is really more
>> formalization of the language design, something that we're sorely
>> missing. I am sometimes frustrated out of my mind at the lack of rigor
>> and discipline in the process. On the other hand, we march with the
>> troops we have.
>>
>>
>> Andrei
>
> Please no. This is how C++ is designed and we all know how fucked up
> that is.

Not at all. This is either a misunderstanding, or you lack the faintest 
idea about the history of C++.

> Writing a [rigorous] spec is almost always incorrect since requirements
> change and unforeseen things come about. Jacob's post illustrates this
> when the spec is written [in TDPL] before implementing, testing and
> integrating it.
>
> By making a rigorous spec you exacerbate the problem - it takes more
> time to write such a spec thus making the time-frame for unforeseen
> changes larger.

No.


Andrei