[Semi OT] Language for Game Development talk

[Paulo Pinto via Digitalmars-d]

Am 26.09.2014 20:46, schrieb Walter Bright:
> 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."
>

This is what happens when people take for granted what Wikipedia says.

At least in this regard, there are still people alive that lived through 
the events.

--
Paulo