On Tuesday, 29 May 2018 at 05:29:00 UTC, Ali wrote:
On Tuesday, 29 May 2018 at 03:56:05 UTC, Dmitry Olshansky wrote:
It seems C++ is following the road of PL/I, which is growing
language way beyond the point anyone can understand or
implement all of it.
A key line from this paper
We now have about 150 cooks; that’s not a good way to get a
tasty and balanced meal.
I don't think Bjarne is against adding feature to C++, or even
constantly adding feature
he even admits to support some of the features he mention in
his list
I think he is worried about
1. the huge number of features being targeted at once
2. the features coming from different independent teams, making
them less likely to be coherent
Which is ironic considering...
Ken Thomson : " Stroustrup campaigned for years and years and
years, way beyond any sort of technical contributions he made to
the language, to get it adopted and used. And he sort of ran all
the standards committees with a whip and a chair. And he said
“no” to no one. He put every feature in that language that ever
existed. It wasn’t cleanly designed—it was just the union of
everything that came along. And I think it suffered drastically
from that."
Donald Knuth : "Whenever the C++ language designers had two
competing ideas as to how they should solve some problem, they
said "OK, we'll do them both". So the language is too baroque for
my taste."
