23 May
2010
23 May
'10
10:22 p.m.
On Sun, May 23, 2010 at 8:44 PM, Chris Cannam
<cannam(a)all-day-breakfast.com> wrote:
I have to say this combination of Boost plus Weird
Stuff From The
Future is no more readable to me (as a long-time C++ programmer) than
the Clojure example.
... by which I don't mean to imply that I can't understand it
(although, with C++, there is always the possibility that I _think_ I
can understand it but am sadly mistaken because of some weird shit
happening behind the scenes). I just mean that I can't simply read
it.
This may be one really serious advantage for the everything-in-C types
-- a competent C programmer can understand any C, whereas C++ is big
enough to have many different "schools of C++" which are mutually
unintelligible without further study.
That's also the seed of its popularity, I suppose -- everyone can
write the way they like in it, and if you can't work out how to do it
properly, you can always drop back into C.
Chris