On Monday, 15 October 2012 at 21:29:11 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
If you think forbidding templates/STL is crazy, wait till you
hear about
the people who insist that const is evil and ban it from their
codebase.
(That was from before C++11, though, I don't know what their
reaction
would be now that key parts of the language _require_ const.
Maybe
they've migrated to VB or something. :-P)
T
I can somewhat understand not using STL as the library assumes
you are using certain paradigms, but they sometimes doesn't do
the job. It is similar to phobos being designed GC in mind.
But if you are not even using templates, why bother? For OOP? I
would never move to C++ for OOP, since you are also losing
something quite important in the process, interoperability with
other languages. Most (maybe all) languages (i know) have some
kind of interface to C. With C++ you lose that one too.
