On 06/08/2015 03:55 PM, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
On Monday, 8 June 2015 at 19:17:03 UTC, Joakim wrote:
I wonder when they will realize that a clean break is necessary. 36
years is far too long for a language to keep building on top of the
past. Intel has been hurt by this with x86 recently, probably
Microsoft with Windows too.
There's no point in C++ having a clean break. If you're doing that, you
might as well just create a new language like D. If C++ had a clean
break, it wouldn't be C++ anymore, and many of the folks who continue to
use C++ are the ones who want it to be backwards compatible. Arguably,
if anything, languages like D and Rust _are_ the clean break.
Exactly the point. A clean break is both needed and available, however,
gigantic resources are still being poured into patching up C++ anyway,
instead of putting those resources into finally jumping ship. C++ is
programmer heroin.
