On 2010-12-14 16:29:18 -0500, Jonathan Schmidt-Dominé
<de...@the-user.org> said:
Just about my experiences: When trying to hack some algorithms quickly in
Ruby I made a lot of mistakes because I had to care about a .clone
everywhere and because Array.new(5, []) does not work as expected (sorry,
but Array.new(5) { return [] } is not nice). So in fact C++ made my life
easier than the new, stylish, simple Ruby-programming-language, because of
the great by-value-containers in the STL.
I have to echo a similar concern with by-reference containers from my
experience of Cocoa. It's really too easy to have two references to the
same container without realizing it. I feel much more secure that my
logic is correct when I play with C++ containers than with Cocoa's.
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Michel Fortin
michel.for...@michelf.com
http://michelf.com/
