On Friday, 20 September 2013 at 13:00:49 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
On Fri, Sep 20, 2013 at 09:14:28AM +0200, PauloPinto wrote:
On Thursday, 19 September 2013 at 23:50:04 UTC, H. S. Teoh
wrote:
but at least in C, mistakes
tend to be noticed rather quickly, whereas in C++ you could be
coding
for months, years, before you even notice anything wrong. And
by then,
it's too late to fix it because half the codebase is already
written in
the "wrong" way.
I think that, even more than the hidden code execution
(constructors, operators) and unpredictable code paths
(exceptions), this is the strongest argument among those Linus
made in its rant against C++.
