[linux-audio-dev] OSC vs MIDI
Dave Robillard
drobilla at connect.carleton.ca
Tue Aug 31 19:04:48 UTC 2004
On Tue, 2004-08-31 at 14:44, Robert Jonsson wrote:
> > Getting off topic here, but there's a little more to it than that. 1
> > Syntactic sugared implementation is much much more preferable to 101
> > conventions for doing OOP with void pointers.
> > Things like typesafety, getting rid of macros in favour of inline
> > functions. The STL is another real reason to use C++ - the closest we have
> > to a standard for that sort of stuff. UML etc... There are a lot of very
> > practical reasons for using C++.
>
> Ahhh, I fear an outbreak of the unstoppable language zealot virus is imminent!
> Once it gets airborne nothing can stop it!
>
> Ahh, it's probably already to late... I can hear the sound of eager fingers
> tapping on keyboards... save yourselves!!
I can't say I've ever actually come across a C++ "zealot".. most seem to
have an opinion similar to mine:
C++ sucks.
However, it sucks less than anything else I could use to do audio
development on linux right now.
-DR-
More information about the Linux-audio-dev
mailing list