From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] g++ From: Charles Forsyth In-Reply-To: <3F6134E1.9070401@plan9.bell-labs.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2003 14:35:13 +0100 Topicbox-Message-UUID: 329e0e9c-eacc-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 i found about 8 years ago that it was rather more productive to avoid writing C++. i found it harder to maintain than some other languages. arguably it does more checking that C (say) but the scope rules and silent actions associated with inheritance, not to mention private languages by operator (re)definitions made it a nightmare to read and maintain code written by others. in fact, when i came back after several to some C++ code i'd written myself, for the first time, i found i couldn't read some of my own code! sometimes it was pretty, but sometimes it was just pretty confusing. fortunately much of it didn't compile because the language had changed again, and what did compile sometimes broke because g++ was broken, so i gave up and rewrote it in something more sensible.