1 Sep
2004
1 Sep
'04
6:49 a.m.
On Tue, 31 Aug 2004 15:04:48 -0400, Dave Robillard wrote
I agree, I didn't mean to come across as a zealot :)
dave
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.