Now, a critic of Stroustrup's choices

[Paulo Pinto via Digitalmars-d]

On Wednesday, 17 September 2014 at 12:05:58 UTC, Ola Fosheim 
Grøstad wrote:
> On Wednesday, 17 September 2014 at 09:21:13 UTC, eles wrote:
>> "
>> These are some notes I have on C++'s operator new. Basically, 
>> I find its syntax downright hateful, and really wish the 
>> language had dealt more cleanly with allocation and 
>> construction.
>
> FWIW, Simula had "new". C++ is B.S.' attempt to marry C with 
> Simula. It's not "designed", but more like "translated", then 
> mutilated a posteriori… Hence the hodgepodge syntax (and 
> semantics).

Bjarne's book about C++ design and evolution is quite good to 
understand how C's compatibility and other issues drove C++ 
design.

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Paulo