ESR on post-C landscape

[rikki cattermole]

On 16/11/2017 6:35 AM, Ola Fosheim Grostad wrote:
> On Thursday, 16 November 2017 at 02:12:10 UTC, codephantom wrote:
>> Perhaps the mistake C++ made, was concluding that 'classes' were the 
>> "proper primary focus of program design" (chp1. The Design and 
>> Evolution of C++).
> 
> No, classes is a powerful modelling primitive. C++ got that right. C++ 
> is also fairly uniform because of it. Not as uniform as Self and Beta, 
> but more so than D.
> 
> People who harp about how OO is a failure don't know how to do real 
> world modelling...

Thing is, it is a failure, the way most people use it.
When used correctly it is a very nice additive to any code base.
It just can't be the only one.