On Monday, 11 August 2014 at 15:42:17 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad
wrote:
On Monday, 11 August 2014 at 15:13:43 UTC, Russel Winder via ...
C++ is good example of the high eco system costs of trying to
support everything, but very little out of the box. You
basically have to select one primary framework and then try to
shoehorn other reusable components into that framework by ugly
layers of glue…
So is the cost of trying not to have an healthy set of libraries
as part of the standard like the other programming languages.
Thanks to the C tradition that the language library is the OS.
Thankfully, the standard is now catching up and will eventually
cover a good set of use cases in the standard library.
However, there is code legacy code out there that doesn't know
anything about ANSI standard revisions.
--
Paulo
