Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 25th Jun 2008 14:47 UTC
Computerworld is undertaking a series of investigations into the most widely-used programming languages. Previously they have spoken to Alfred v. Aho of AWK fame, S. Tucker Taft on the Ada 1995 and 2005 revisions, Microsoft about its server-side script engine ASP, and Chet Ramey about his experience maintaining Bash. In the latest interview Computerworld chats with Bjarne Stroustrup of C++ fame about the design and development of C++, garbage collection and the role of facial hair in successful programming languages.
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"C++ is so powerful that whole new C++ coding paradigms were discovered years after the language was designed."
Is that a feature or a bug ?
;-)
More seriously, Template macros are nice, but I still miss plain procedural macros.
Ya know, Lisp...
If C++ wasn't so much linked with C, the language could have a much saner syntax.
If C++ wasn't so much linked with C, it would be now completely forgotten.