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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,ab1d177a5a26577d X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Attributes: gida07f3367d7,domainid0,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news2.google.com!Xl.tags.giganews.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!local2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!news.giganews.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2011 07:31:37 -0600 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2011 08:31:24 -0500 From: "Peter C. Chapin" Subject: Re: What's wrong with C++? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: <1ee1a434-4048-48f6-9f5e-d8126bebb808@r19g2000prm.googlegroups.com> User-Agent: Alpine 2.00 (WNT 1167 2008-08-23) X-X-Sender: pcc09070@vtc.vsc.edu@webmail.vtc.edu MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com X-Trace: sv3-d7SZXxL2aCSD4IoEnxleDxiJKsGRnV8bYDuO6Xh1G4l7oV3bZQcysg3ZNj1nAa05Ie5GMpRoTOsg5+G!cXvRFZbAD9BrZzvOeqsgnMUI+JU6buIeX9HYEEKVvJdjJt1PR4shSymQsO2GtIzK4uMoTCO95w== X-Complaints-To: abuse@giganews.com X-DMCA-Notifications: http://www.giganews.com/info/dmca.html X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 X-Original-Bytes: 1781 Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:17334 Date: 2011-02-17T08:31:24-05:00 List-Id: On Wed, 16 Feb 2011, Mike Sieweke wrote: > The flaws in C++ are too numerous for a newsgroup posting. > A bullet list would run into several pages. > > You should read Ian Joyner's critique: > http://www.zechweb.de/Joyners_cpp_critique/ I have a lot of problems with that critique. I wouldn't recommend it to anyone. I don't think the author really understands C++ and thus is attacking a straw man created in his own mind. I actually wrote a longish rebuttal to that document. I could post it somewhere if people care. Peter