"Steven Burns" <royalstream@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > The C++ community in general suffers a lot from the NIH Syndrome. > Matrixes, Strings, Vectors, everybody creates their own which are always, or > course, superior to what's already available. > > Again, is not the language's fault, a language is just a language. > It's the way it has been driven. Having loose wires instead of a brake pedal in a car because the user might prefer to brake with his teeth or by wiggling his backside or building any other contraption of his own invention is a design mistake. Especially when we are talking about public transportation with changing drivers. Making a language huge and bloated in order to be able to use the language itself for defining a set of basic data types is just masturbation. C++ has the most complicated set of implicit conversions from any language in the world, and what for? It is modeled for being able to create a user-defined "complex" type which behaves almost as well as Fortran's. Too bad that this mostly means everybody will define his own type (well, at least we have seen two or three different library "standards" by now), and that the implicit conversion rules and chains are appallingly wrong for a number of other possible user-defined arithmetic types. -- David Kastrup - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
