On 2016-09-24 01:25, Greg Landrum wrote: > https://medium.com/@greg.landrum_t5/the-rdkit-and-modern-c-48206b966218?source=linkShare-d698b3fa9f7-1474698147 > > This is a big and important change and I'd love to hear whatever > feedback members of the community may have. Please comment either on the > blog post or here.
What are the concrete benefits -14 will bring to the toolkit? C++ committee has long been criticized for attempting to solve the wrong problems every time and every time coming up with solutions that are reasonable, logical, and wrong. We've been forced to update our code several times due to g++ updates being incompatible with the "language formerly known as C++" and if that's the case with RFKit, then you don't have much choice. However, if I were rewriting the code for the sake of making it "cleaner" or "more maintainable", I'd be seriously considering go or objective c or maybe gnat even. At this point I can only recommend C++ to Comp. Sci. students in the Programming languages unit; as an object example of where good intentions usually end up. I certainly wouldn't recommend it to chemists as a "modern tool", or even a good tool. Just mu $.02 as "it professional". Dimitri ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Rdkit-discuss mailing list Rdkit-discuss@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/rdkit-discuss
