Andrew Lentvorski wrote: > Gabriel Sechan wrote: >> This one feature of a language magnifies the readability of your >> programs by a factor of 200- at the minimum. You don't need to >> read pages and pages of code to figure out what's being done and how >> the data is stored. Its right there. You want to see the insides of >> that structure, to see how it manages its data? You know where to >> look. A program is utterly unmaintainable without that. > > Excuse me, but some of us have these newfangled things called "editors". > > And they can tell us the type of the variable, how it's laid out, what > it references, and maybe even what it should be vs. what it is. > > Of course, this requires a language that has introspection so C/C++ > users can just leave the discussion (although ECB tries really hard to > make this work even with gigantic pile of feces that is C++ grammar). Sadly, that "never touch Microsoft even if it hurts me and not them" thing is showing. ;-)
DevStudio (actually a lot of commercial C++ dev tools) has been handling the vagaries of C++ for years. One of the saddest things about gcc is that they didn't make their parsing more easily usable by outside code. What really throws me though is why nobody has taken the time to use Elsa to handle this problem. Someday I'll find the time to do this myself. --Chris -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-lpsg
