https://www.quora.com/What-does-Bjarne-Stroustrup-think-about-different-programming-languages

On Thursday, 21 May 2015 at 17:36:00 UTC, Laeeth Isharc wrote:
> https://www.quora.com/What-does-Bjarne-Stroustrup-think-about-different-programming-languages

The C++ standard committee already reviewed static_if
IIRC Andrei and Walter said they were being incredibly unfair.


http://forum.dlang.org/thread/cdgzdesltjefjvnjbspk@forum.dlang.org#post-cdgzdesltjefjvnjbspk:40forum.dlang.org
pretty long thread on it if you want to dig through it.

And I'll end my post with an excerpt from the ISOCPP paper, and IMO the reason C++ is the way it is:

> Being a new and realtively simple-to-use new feature, static_if would un-
> doubtedly be used by many who have no need for the relatively small increme-
> natal improvement in performance offered.

On Thursday, 21 May 2015 at 23:28:32 UTC, weaselcat wrote:
> On Thursday, 21 May 2015 at 17:36:00 UTC, Laeeth Isharc wrote:
>> https://www.quora.com/What-does-Bjarne-Stroustrup-think-about-different-programming-languages
>
> The C++ standard committee already reviewed static_if
> IIRC Andrei and Walter said they were being incredibly unfair.
>
>
> http://forum.dlang.org/thread/cdgzdesltjefjvnjbspk@forum.dlang.org#post-cdgzdesltjefjvnjbspk:40forum.dlang.org
> pretty long thread on it if you want to dig through it.
>
> And I'll end my post with an excerpt from the ISOCPP paper, and IMO the reason C++ is the way it is:
>
>> Being a new and realtively simple-to-use new feature, static_if would un-
>> doubtedly be used by many who have no need for the relatively small increme-
>> natal improvement in performance offered.

I don't claim to be a language guru, but I couldn't make any sense of that 'considered' paper (static if) even when I squinted and looked at it funny.  Fair maiden lives an exciting life in the big city, and only now decides to be more discerning?

As a student of affect and its manifestation in language it seemed to make perfect sense though.

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/B9780124160088000115

Still, I tried not to be too harsh, because it (C++) was in many ways an admirable achievement, and who am I to have the expertise to be sure.  On the other hand, one cannot escape the need to form judgements, and I figured if I got it completely wrong then somebody would certainly put me right.

Thanks for the link - will take a look.


Laeeth.