26 Dec
2019
26 Dec
'19
10:53 p.m.
On Thu, Dec 26, 2019 at 05:34:29PM +0100, Thomas Paulsen wrote:
Larry McVoy <lm(a)mcvoy.com> wrote:
What I'd really like is a "C+". Take C, cherry pick stuff that obviously
makes C better, repeat.
It's basically what we did with http://little-lang.org
C++ seems to encourage complexity and I hate
complexity.
... by adding generics plus object orientation to the complexity of
C.
However the (Mr. Big) attitude of some C++ developer teams seems to be
the real problem, 'forcing' each other to use all the fancy features of
the language. Beside that, one can easily write modest OO code having
many advantages over C code, like name spaces, classes, containers,
strings etc.