On Friday, 29 January 2016 at 10:43:08 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad
wrote:
https://www.reddit.com/r/cpp/comments/41uflq/bjarne_stroustrup_doing_an_ama/
Mentions D.
Since it is in danish, let me quickly translate the informative
sections:
Bjarne Stroustrup (translated from danish): The safety rules is
part of the more extensive guidelines
(https://github.com/isocpp/CppCoreGuidelines ) and supported by a
small library (https://github.com/microsoft/gsl ) . We have
"annotations" which can be used to neutralize the rules (as an
"unsafe" annotation). We minimize their usage. Our goal is 100%
safety and I assume that we will get as close to that goals as
any language that can work directly with hardware. We already
have 100% resource safety, and that is better than languages like
Java and C#. I think all languages will become better in these
areas.»
On garbage collection:
Bjarne Stroustrup (translated from danish): Yes, programming
language creators and researchers have always been fascinated by
garbage collection. I think that is a mistake: GC is not general
- it cannot deal with non-memory resources - and is not ideal -
it introduces a central facility in (otherwise) distributed
systems. The good solution is to not produce garbage:
http://www.stroustrup.com/resource-model.pdf . RAII is central in
my ideas about programming.
He also acknowledges scandinavian contributions to programming
languages, the OO languages Simula and Beta.
