On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 5:12 AM, <[email protected]> wrote: > When they are promoting these sort of idioms, computer > scientists often look like the proverbial 'man with a > hammer'. > > These things come and go, every year has its new crop. > After the hype has settled down, they are usually > forgotten. >
it seems to me quite the opposite. most of these ideas are actually fairly old. they just never got implemented in or were never supported by a widely used language. i've seen very few "new" ideas show up in programming languages, but what i am happy to see is the relatively careful integration of some of the most useful and powerful idioms from other languages (lisp, python and so forth) into a language where i can actually control precisely what happens (C++). it turns out that there are two levels of care: first, those responsible for the std:: namespace (and even boost:: to some extent), and then myself as an individual programmer making choices about what to use. --p
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