[OT] Ada gems

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Tue Oct 14 13:08:13 PDT 2014


On Tuesday, 14 October 2014 at 19:49:08 UTC, Paulo Pinto wrote:
> Am 14.10.2014 um 17:30 schrieb eles:
>> On Tuesday, 14 October 2014 at 14:56:53 UTC, eles wrote:
>>> On Tuesday, 14 October 2014 at 13:52:24 UTC, eles wrote:
>>
>> http://ask-beta.slashdot.org/story/14/04/30/1344224/c-and-the-stl-12-years-later-what-do-you-think-now
>>
>>
>> "I've been using it professionally for 15 years now, and if I 
>> observe
>> anything, it's that the longer I use it, the more my stuff 
>> looks like C.
>> I keep shaking my head at younger colleagues mis-using 
>> templates all
>> over the place ("re-usability!", and hour-long compile times, 
>> coupled
>> with really non-obvious implicit conversions and 
>> instantiations, never
>> mind the error messages), and object-oriented hierarchies 
>> where each
>> object is such a tiny part of the system that you need to 
>> remember 10
>> classes at the same time just to have a slight inkling of what 
>> this
>> thing is actually supposed to do."
>
> Actually I prefer,
>
> "I used to love c++ and berade people who used wimp languages 
> like Java. These days I mainly use java, and when I do have to 
> use c++, it feels painfully dated.
>
> At to C++11, while it added some useful stuff, in general it 
> feels like it's just flailing while trying to bring in some of 
> the language features of newer/more modern languages. The new 
> concurrency stuff in particular is just plain unseemly.

Isn't concurrency/parallell stuff coming in C++17?

I found the cppcon roundtable on concurrency interesting:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AfI_0GzLWQ8


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