2010/3/11 Jonathan S. Shapiro <[email protected]>: > Hang on. An "anti-goal" is a political/social statement. Supporting the full > CTS is a technical issue.
My first reaction was that extending BitC's type system with possibly unorthogonal features is not a good idea in general, and I remembered something like: (okay, I had to go check if I remembered it correctly :) "Something we didn't want was an object-oriented language. OO languages remain a popular fad, but our experience using C++ in the EROS system was that it actively got in the way of understanding what was going on. We also think it's a bad sign that the C++ language evolution has adopted a policy of "extension by ad hoc complexity.'"" ...which made think of objects as an anti-goal. But creating a "BitC/CLI" superset for interop purposes would be great, of course. But there are a lot more to the CTS than objects. _______________________________________________ bitc-dev mailing list [email protected] http://www.coyotos.org/mailman/listinfo/bitc-dev
