Rogelio Serrano wrote:
*snip*
some people actually wanted to write gcc in c++. God forbid. i dont
want to be writing system routines with STL. the gcc steering
committee have a majority of c++ programmers and
^even^
they resisted it.
And well they should!
C++ is a towering example of what happens when good theoretical intentions with
too little inertia meet conflicting needs. Java is another.
We don't need cures that are worse than the disease. If it even *is* a
'disease'.
By contrast, though I don't expect Ada will ever get much faster, let alone
'best choice' for all work, it is at least finally delivering enough reduction
in debugging time to make economic sense to firms with serious needs and serious
funding. Boeing, for example.
We need to learn *something* useful from that. And apply it.
Bill
