Now, a critic of Stroustrup's choices

[Paulo Pinto via Digitalmars-d]

Am 18.09.2014 20:10, schrieb "Ola Fosheim Grøstad" 
<ola.fosheim.grostad+dlang at gmail.com>":
> On Thursday, 18 September 2014 at 09:16:39 UTC, Paulo  Pinto wrote:
>> These issues are touched in the book if I remember correctly.
>
> Yeah, but I don't have it and hoped you would give me some juicy quotes :).

The book is a few thousand kilometres from my current location. So no 
chance.

>
>> Quite a few C++ design decisions came from the requirement to fit 1:1
>> with C toolchains.
>
> Isn't it funny (or sad) though how the IT sector keeps being bogged down
> by clogged backwards compatibility issues going all the way back to the
> 60s and 70s?
>

Yes, which is why incremental changes tend to win over disruptive ones.

Then we also have certain technologies that become mainstream and 
destroy better ones (e.g. C).

All the efforts the programming communities that care about safety now 
have to spend promoting languages like D to fix the security issues 
created by it. When more safer languages were already available at the 
time UNIX spread out of university labs.

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Paulo