Research breakthrough from the Haskell team

[Sean Kelly]

Bruno Medeiros Wrote:

> On 04/12/2010 12:30, Peter Alexander wrote:
> 
> I wonder what he means with the "It would be funny if it weren't already 
> happening even at the top software companies (how modern are the Google 
> coding standards?)". Like, are they banning some stuff from C++ or other 
> languages that they perceive as "highbrow" ?

Exceptions are banned for pragmatic reasons--some of the Google code is not exception safe and it would be too difficult to change it.  I can't recall the policy on templates offhand.