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From: thomas.paulsen at firemail.de (Thomas Paulsen)
Subject: [COFF] What languges would you like to learn?
Date: Thu, 26 Dec 2019 17:34:29 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <201a20078ecef112dee84d85d66fb68c@firemail.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m236d7xq67.fsf@thuvia.hamartun.priv.no>

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.




  parent reply	other threads:[~2019-12-26 16:34 UTC|newest]

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 [this message]
2019-12-26 16:53                   ` lm
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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