A link to the correct library - that's about one line, I'd say.
Except when there isn't a free library that launches an entire scriptable RAD environment in one line.
Not taking into account that I do never need to get "word 3 of item 6 of line 17" but usually use some regexp for such tasks - I'd say a call of the right function in the correct library takes about one > line.
RegExp would be an awfully slow way to do chunk expressions. That and it wouldn't work very well... pattern matching and text chunking aren't the same thing.
Yes, by using shared libraries - or, depending on the actual task, using a plug in system.
That's great... if you distribute the shared library yourself. And if so, there's a good chance you wrote it. In which case all of the "one line to the correct library" stuff becomes moot...
But C or C++ isn't a language on its own, as you depict. You always access a large pool of libraries, you (surely?) don't reinvent wheels, tires or women every time you start coding something.
I do agree with you in principle; however, I think you are vastly overstating the concise nature of programming in C or C++ by implying that you can just replace RAD functionality with one line linking to the right shared library. There are a lot of C/C++ libraries out there, but there aren't _that_ many, and there are many issues around using them. Especially cross-platform.
FWIW, Brian
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