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. :)

--
Paulo


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