[dev] wmii display size issue

2010-09-10 Thread Benjamin Cathey
I setup a secondary monitor to be used as my only display and have things almost completely worked out. Using 'xrandr' I have the external display on with the correct resolution and the laptop display turned off when I go into X (xrandr executes prior to wmii executing). However wmii's

[dev] [OT] What's wrong with C++?

2010-09-10 Thread Nikhilesh S
I must start out saying I don't have much experience in software development with larger teams on large projects or with lots of other people, or in 'commercial software development' in companies - I've just done stuff as a hobby in my free time for the past 5 years or so, learning on my own - but

Re: [dev] [OT] What's wrong with C++?

2010-09-10 Thread Paolo
Uriel has a page on that, you can find some link there. http://harmful.cat-v.org/software/c++/ C++ inserts a serie of unneeded complexity to the straightforwardness of C. If you think object-orientedly, you sure imagine a lot of Player objects each with a Position object (x,y,z) referenced to a

Re: [dev] [OT] What's wrong with C++?

2010-09-10 Thread Szabolcs Nagy
* Nikhilesh S s.nikhil...@gmail.com [2010-09-10 20:19:38 +0300]: Is C++ broken because no one really understands it fully? Is allowing multiple paradigms in a single langauge a problem? Should language enforce paradigm? Could you elaborate in detail, what exactly are your problems with C++?

Re: [dev] [OT] What's wrong with C++?

2010-09-10 Thread Ramil Farkhshatov
There is a good analysis of C++ monstrosity: http://yosefk.com/c++fqa -- Ramil Farkhshatov

Re: [dev] [OT] What's wrong with C++?

2010-09-10 Thread David Tweed
On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 7:19 PM, Paolo lordkran...@gmail.com wrote: Why program in C++ when you can do it in C, making the program simpler and better? One of my maxims is that everyone mistakenly thinks that the kind of programs that they write are the kind of programs everyone writes. There

Re: [dev] [OT] What's wrong with C++?

2010-09-10 Thread Kris Maglione
On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 08:19:38PM +0300, Nikhilesh S wrote: I must start out saying I don't have much experience in software development with larger teams on large projects or with lots of other people, or in 'commercial software development' in companies - I've just done stuff as a hobby in my