Hi Hamish, Clearing out old emails...
> Why is it that you dislike C++ Ralph? I admit it is overcomplicated, > but I'm quite fond of it :) I lived through the flight of the `object-orientated programming' silver bullet, and it never had the scope it promised. C++ jumped aboard early on, just as Stroustrup has had it encompass every passing shiny thing since whilst ignoring the complexity cost. This is old, but a reasonable summary. http://www.catb.org/esr/writings/taoup/html/ch14s04.html#cc_language The same author recently covered why C and not C++ again in http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=7724 which I probably linked to on another thread in recent months. Cheers, Ralph. -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday, 2018-05-01 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ New thread: mailto:dorset@mailman.lug.org.uk / CHECK IF YOU'RE REPLYING Reporting bugs well: http://goo.gl/4Xue / TO THE LIST OR THE AUTHOR
