On Wednesday 28 January 2009, Dave McGuire wrote: > And again, I agree in theory, but in practice things are > quite a bit different. A lot of people writing C++ code > these days have no idea what they're doing, and the rest of > us pay the price in frustration when we try to get something > compiled.
A lot of people writing code in any language have no idea what they are doing. > So, I guess my problem is more with clueless C++ > "programmers" than C++ itself. Substitute any other language, that statement is still equally true. > (though I do consider C++ to > be a horribly ugly pile of crap) Most of the ugliness is inherited from C, or exists because of the restrictions that come from a goal of making it a proper superset of C. Can you do better? Show me. I don't mean a theoretically better simple language. I mean something better for the type of jobs C++ was designed for. _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user