From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <00e601c37962$5f293d80$b9844051@insultant.net> From: "boyd, rounin" To: <9fans@cse.psu.edu> References: <20030912185623.4056.qmail@f.bio.cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] g++ MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2003 21:16:29 +0200 Topicbox-Message-UUID: 339d1874-eacc-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 > In some recent (non-Plan 9) programming I've used C++. The STL makes it > a slam-dunk decision. It's just wrong to use char* instead of string, > or writing yet another hand coded container instead of just typing > map or vector. Any language without syntactically > convenient generics and a standard set of containers is just too painful > to use, in general. it's called 'limbo', but no one will use it so it's C++ or python. i don't wanna write any C++ -- ever. i'm not that keen on writing python either. and i certainly don't like writing in C for user mode stuff. i have a native plan 9 awk, but it's buggy. i hate debugging C. i think i know what major bug is, but i haven't analysed it enough to work out what i did wrong, but it's to do with mangling ARGC: http://plan9.bell-labs.com/magic/man2html/2/arg which i had to do 'cos of a name clash.