"Gor Gyolchanyan" <[email protected]> wrote in message news:[email protected]... >I can't keep it in any more, I have to share. > > I've seen lots of corporate C++ code and coding guidelines and I came > to the conclusion, that they're all bogus. > The vast majority of code, being written in commercial projects use a > very limited subset of the language they use. > The code I work with currently is a purely object-oriented C++ code. > I used to like object-oriented programming until I started working > with that code. > Corporate code is very religious. They use a few specialized > techniques for everything. > They use object-oriented programming when functional programming is > the technique of choice. > They use object-oriented programming when generic programming is the > technique of choice. > The code is unimaginably bloated, flooded with thousands of tiny > redundant classes, each of which do a primitive task, which doesn't > need to be a class at all. > I've discussed D with my colleagues lately and the vast multi-paradigm > and built-in featured of D were discarded with a religious "There's a > class already written for that.". > Why do I keep saying "religious"? Because they are convinced, that > this is the way to go and do not accept any logical arguments. > Why do I talk about this at all? Because corporate code is the one we > need to become D. > But this is not gonna happen with such religious attitude to programming. > They say built-in arrays are useless, because there's always > std::vector and std::list. > They say, functional programming and lambdas are useless, because you > can make functors and base classes for them. > They say garbage collection is useless, because there's always > std::shared_ptr. > Well, yes. You do have all that. But look what the code looks like and > how fast it runs! > > It's amazing how stupid and ignorant can corporate developers be > sometimes and how smart and considerate open-source developers can be. > I don't know how to cure the people's minds from this religious > plague, that poisons the software development industry. >
Hear, hear!
