nobody wrote:
Linus Torvalds shows his opinion about why he chooses C here:
http://www.realworldtech.com/forums/index.cfm?action=detail&id=110618&threadid=110549&roomid=2
He wants a language that context-free, simple, down to the metal.
He dislikes C++ b/c it has many abstraction.
I think some D experts should post some comments.
I think the context problem comes from the wrong understanding of the
OOP. The C programmers when try to write C++ object-oriented code still
continue to think in procedural and everything available(global) way.
But, object-oriented way assumes the programmer to actually think in
abstract manner.
Sure, when it comes to reading the C++ code of not mature C++
programmer, and who didn't adopt object oriented paradigm, who mix his
past practical experience(and he knows it works!, why abandon it?) with
OOP...
It's hard to understand what he means by writing inconsistent code.
Plus, adding poor documentation to this. Yes, to understand C++ code can
be very difficult.
My opinion on the topic is that the abstraction comes at a cost of
hidden implementation. Such hidden implementation must have good, proper
documentation, or readable interface. If programming with OOP, the
programmer must think in OOP, not C procedural way.
And few words about interfacing again.
When I agitate for the interfaces I usually mean by this: OK, your code
is good at what it does and does it well(or you think it does well),
give me proper and documented interface so that I can understand how to
use it and apply in real life.
If you do not do this, I must read your code(oh no!) and understand how
it works(isn't it the problem that your code is aimed to solve?!!), so
that I make interface in my imagination(!) on how to use your code,
eventually I will not remember all the imagined picture and therefore
dissatisfy with the code, it can even drive me not to use your code any
more, or C++ code in general.
--
Alex Makhotin,
the founder of BITPROX,
http://bitprox.com
