[Semi OT] Language for Game Development talk

[H. S. Teoh via Digitalmars-d]

On Fri, Sep 26, 2014 at 08:50:06PM +0200, Paulo Pinto via Digitalmars-d wrote:
> 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.
[...]

Then wikipedia should be edited to be more accurate, while said people
are still alive!! Otherwise the distorted version of the events will
come to be regarded as fact.


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