From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,12f4d07c572005e3 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: ff6c8,12f4d07c572005e3 X-Google-Attributes: gidff6c8,public X-Google-Thread: f43e6,12f4d07c572005e3 X-Google-Attributes: gidf43e6,public X-Google-Thread: 1108a1,12f4d07c572005e3 X-Google-Attributes: gid1108a1,public From: wbrooks@lwaxana.acs.calpoly.edu (Bill Brooks) Subject: Re: Java Risks (Was: Ada News Brief - 96-05-24 Date: 1996/06/04 Message-ID: <4p0njd$9a4@isnews.csc.calpoly.edu>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 158368069 references: <4o56db$p66@ns1.sw-eng.falls-church.va.us> <4omoh4$k0f@ansible.bbt.com> <31B2B06A.43FE@lmtas.lmco.com> organization: Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo nntp-posting-user: wbrooks@lwaxana.acs.calpoly.edu newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.sw.components,comp.object,comp.software-eng Date: 1996-06-04T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article <31B2B06A.43FE@lmtas.lmco.com>, Ken Garlington wrote: >Brian N. Miller wrote: >> >> >> A disbelieve that C++ is evolving awkwardly. Is there a publication >> which claims so? Or is this 2-bit usenet opinion? ;') > >See Plauger's comments in Embedded Systems Programming, for example. >(I'm not sure why an opinion in a publication is necessarily better >than one on the Internet, but nonetheless, there it is...) > I too tend to disbelieve claims that C++ is evolving awkwardly, but anyone who hasn't seen the reams of material published on this topic must be living under a rock! The number of articles on the error-proness of C++ exception handling alone could supply all the material for a graduate level seminar. Start out with: The Evolution of C++: Language Design in the Marketplace of Ideas, 1993, edited by Jim Waldo, which traces the history of C++ from USENIX conferences to today's most popular OOPL. Waldo concludes that the language at one point had a clear design center, but that it doesn't now. -- "More computing sins are committed in the name of efficiency (without necessarily achieving it) than for any other reason -- including blind stupidity." -- Wm. A. Wulf