Marko Rauhamaa <ma...@pacujo.net> writes: > The guiding principle in C++ language development is to take static > type safety to the extreme.
Heh, try Ada. > Stroustrup apparently has never had to deal with callbacks; his thick > books never made a mention of them last time I checked. C++ has function pointers just like C, but more idiomatically you'd pass a class instance and the library would invoke some method on it. There is also Boost::Coroutine which can get rid of the need for callbacks in some situations. > Esthetically, I'm most impressed with Scheme. One day it might give > Python a run for its money. It's in a small and shrinking niche, unfortunately. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list