From: lm at mcvoy.com (Larry McVoy)
Subject: [COFF] What languges would you like to learn?
Date: Thu, 26 Dec 2019 08:53:40 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20191226165340.GL3839@mcvoy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201a20078ecef112dee84d85d66fb68c@firemail.de>
On Thu, Dec 26, 2019 at 05:34:29PM +0100, Thomas Paulsen wrote:
> Larry McVoy <lm at mcvoy.com> wrote:
>
> > C++ seems to encourage complexity and I hate complexity.
> ... by adding generics plus object orientation to the complexity of C.
>
> However the (Mr. Big) attitude of some C++ developer teams seems to be
> the real problem, 'forcing' each other to use all the fancy features of
> the language. Beside that, one can easily write modest OO code having
> many advantages over C code, like name spaces, classes, containers,
> strings etc.
What I'd really like is a "C+". Take C, cherry pick stuff that obviously
makes C better, repeat.
It's basically what we did with http://little-lang.org
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Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-12-23 23:27 cym224
2019-12-24 9:54 ` thomas.paulsen
2019-12-24 16:28 ` toby
2019-12-24 16:35 ` lm
2019-12-24 17:50 `
2019-12-24 18:04 ` lm
2019-12-25 3:34 ` dave
2019-12-25 16:02 ` cym224
2019-12-25 17:05 ` thomas.paulsen
2019-12-24 20:27 ` dave
2019-12-25 17:31 ` rtomek
2019-12-25 19:13 ` athornton
2019-12-26 0:23 ` me
2019-12-26 1:54 ` wobblygong
2019-12-26 3:44 ` dave
2019-12-26 4:00 ` lm
2019-12-26 5:43 ` wobblygong
2019-12-26 11:49 ` tih
2019-12-26 15:33 ` lm
2019-12-26 16:34 ` thomas.paulsen
2019-12-26 16:53 ` lm [this message]
2019-12-27 3:00 ` dave
2019-12-27 7:02 ` thomas.paulsen
2019-12-26 17:57 ` bakul
2019-12-26 21:28 ` davida
2019-12-26 21:37 ` lm
2019-12-26 21:57 ` sauer
2019-12-26 22:13 `
2019-12-27 3:41 ` bakul
2019-12-27 4:00 ` lm
2019-12-27 4:28 ` bakul
2019-12-26 22:16 ` imp
2019-12-27 3:41 ` bakul
2019-12-26 15:43 ` dfawcus+lists-coff
2019-12-27 17:46 ` cym224
2019-12-27 21:33 ` tih
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