On Fri, Apr 06, 2012 at 02:52:38PM -0400, Nick Sabalausky wrote: > "H. S. Teoh" <hst...@quickfur.ath.cx> wrote in message > news:mailman.1417.1333721195.4860.digitalmar...@puremagic.com... > > On Fri, Apr 06, 2012 at 12:34:09PM +0400, Denis Shelomovskij wrote: > >> And adobe Flash of course should also die. > > > > +1. It should have died a DECADE ago. Except that certain interests > > kept its decaying worm-infested corpse animating even till today. > > > > Funny, that's also how I feel about C++. As I've been saying for > awhile, a decade of near-zero interest in anything but VM languages is > what kept it on life support.
I would've felt the same had I known of a suitable replacement for C++ earlier. But for many years it was the only thing I had (besides pure hardcore C) that was even remotely close to what my "ideal" language would be. > Fortunately, D's quickly becoming the successor that's always been > needed so C++ will finally be able to RIP. You have no idea how many times I swore off C++ because of its inherent stupidities (like hash tables not making the C++ standard before C++11, among many other sillinesses), only to have to crawl back on my knees when other alternatives sucked even more. When I finally discovered D, I was almost blown away by how many things it got right, in my book. (I had a list of things I wanted in an ideal language, and D fits so many items on that list it's quite uncanny.) [...] > I can personally vouch for the fact that there is *nothing* productive > about writing software in Flash. C++ is more productive. [...] >From the very first day I heard about Flash, I've had my doubts. It just *smelled* wrong. That was before I even had any idea of how it's implemented. Time has proven that my gut feeling was correct. Flash is a festering wart that should be blotted from off the face of the internet for the sake of the future of humanity. T -- It is of the new things that men tire --- of fashions and proposals and improvements and change. It is the old things that startle and intoxicate. It is the old things that are young. -- G.K. Chesterton
