On Thursday, 23 February 2017 at 07:36:11 UTC, Shachar Shemesh
wrote:
That is a matter of perspective. I, for one, feel other
languages put too much constraints on, making me work quite
hard to get what I want expressed in the language, often
blocking me from the most efficient implementation altogether.
What I meant was that what was things along the line of:
best-practice in the past for meta-programming is no longer the
best way to go about it today, yet C++ remains backwards
compatible so... as a result you end up having N ways of
expressing the same thing. Which makes C++ harder to read than it
should be.
It is not so much about being able to express something as it is
about having N different convoluted ways to express the same
thing.
Which is precisely why it is not a good language to start with
unless you intend to stick with it.
At this point C++ is a very poor choice for education at any
level.
Ola.
