Now, a critic of Stroustrup's choices
Paulo Pinto via Digitalmars-d
digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Thu Sep 18 02:16:37 PDT 2014
On Thursday, 18 September 2014 at 08:33:53 UTC, Ola Fosheim
Grostad wrote:
> On Thursday, 18 September 2014 at 08:14:42 UTC, Paulo Pinto
> wrote:
>> Bjarne's book about C++ design and evolution is quite good to
>> understand how C's compatibility and other issues drove C++
>> design.
>
> I guess cfront affected the design a lot by being based on
> converting the input to C. Not adding a proper module system
> was a big mistake, but that is OT.
These issues are touched in the book if I remember correctly.
Quite a few C++ design decisions came from the requirement to fit
1:1 with C toolchains.
Now we need to wait for C++17, or do some marketing that D has
them today. :)
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Paulo
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