On Thursday, 18 September 2014 at 08:33:53 UTC, Ola Fosheim
Grostad wrote:
On Thursday, 18 September 2014 at 08:14:42 UTC, Paulo Pinto
wrote:
Bjarne's book about C++ design and evolution is quite good to
understand how C's compatibility and other issues drove C++
design.
I guess cfront affected the design a lot by being based on
converting the input to C. Not adding a proper module system
was a big mistake, but that is OT.
These issues are touched in the book if I remember correctly.
Quite a few C++ design decisions came from the requirement to fit
1:1 with C toolchains.
Now we need to wait for C++17, or do some marketing that D has
them today. :)
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Paulo
