[Semi OT] Language for Game Development talk

[Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d]

On 9/26/2014 4:02 AM, Paulo Pinto wrote:
> On Friday, 26 September 2014 at 10:01:32 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad wrote:
>> On Friday, 26 September 2014 at 09:41:09 UTC, Paulo  Pinto wrote:
>>> This is completely not true, we were using RAII in C++ before any compiler
>>> had real support for exceptions.
>>
>> Well, I haven't read the 1990 edition of the annotated C++ reference by
>> Stroustrup and Ellis since the mid 90s so my memory may be clouded, but that
>> is how I remember it.
>>
>> And wikipedia says the same:
>>
>> «The technique was developed for exception-safe resource management in C++[3]
>> during 1984–89»
>>
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resource_Acquisition_Is_Initialization
>
> I don't care what Wikipedia says, I was there in the early C++ days happily
> using Turbo and Borland C++ in MS-DOS.

I wrote a C++ compiler in 1987. Nobody had ever heard of exceptions. Bjarne's 
1986 "The C++ Programming Language" does not mention RAII or exceptions, but 
does say on pg. 158:

"Calling constructors and destructors for static objects serves an extremely 
important function in C++. It is the way to ensure proper initialization and 
cleanup of data structures in libraries."