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| From | Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com> |
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| Newsgroups | comp.lang.c |
| Subject | Re: a style question: |
| Date | 2015-09-01 18:21 +1200 |
| Message-ID | <d4kufvFqhdfU10@mid.individual.net> (permalink) |
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Bartc wrote: > On 01/09/2015 00:33, Jens Thoms Toerring wrote: >> Bartc <bc@freeuk.com> wrote: >>> But I can't follow C++ because, when people make full use of its >>> features as they like to do; >> >> Have you ever asked yourself why people like to to use them, even >> though you consider them to be "useless", "horrible", "over-com- >> plex" and what else? It's simple: because they're so damned use- >> ful and extend the expressiveness of the language into realms you >> can't even start imagining as long as you expect that everything >> must be done as it's done in C or similar lower-level languages. >> >> Perhaps you should attempt to realize that "higher-level lan- >> guage" doesn't mean "more functions to do some things that some >> people may want to do" (say printing an array or a structure, >> which all non-terminally-stupid users could do with a function >> of their own or might be supplied via a library). It means >> introducing new, more abstract concepts that allow the users >> of the language to do things that, in a lower-level language, >> not only are impossible but hardly can be thought of. > > What sort of things? > > I normally use a dynamic language, which is actually quite low-level > compared with some, that can do much of what C++ can do, and with none > of the fuss. If that is the case, you have discovered the holy grail of programming languages! -- Ian Collins
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a style question: G G <gdotone@gmail.com> - 2015-08-31 02:30 -0700
Re: a style question: Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com> - 2015-08-31 21:40 +1200
Re: a style question: jt@toerring.de (Jens Thoms Toerring) - 2015-08-31 09:52 +0000
Re: a style question: Malcolm McLean <malcolm.mclean5@btinternet.com> - 2015-08-31 03:24 -0700
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Re: a style question: Melzzzzz <mel@zzzzz.com> - 2015-08-31 17:46 +0200
Re: a style question: Bartc <bc@freeuk.com> - 2015-08-31 17:27 +0100
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Re: a style question: Jorgen Grahn <grahn+nntp@snipabacken.se> - 2015-08-31 17:41 +0000
Re: a style question: Malcolm McLean <malcolm.mclean5@btinternet.com> - 2015-08-31 15:33 -0700
Re: a style question: Jorgen Grahn <grahn+nntp@snipabacken.se> - 2015-09-01 08:34 +0000
Re: a style question: Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com> - 2015-09-01 07:40 +1200
Re: a style question: Bartc <bc@freeuk.com> - 2015-08-31 21:36 +0100
Re: a style question: Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com> - 2015-09-01 08:51 +1200
Re: a style question: Bartc <bc@freeuk.com> - 2015-08-31 22:37 +0100
Re: a style question: Malcolm McLean <malcolm.mclean5@btinternet.com> - 2015-08-31 15:24 -0700
Re: a style question: Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com> - 2015-09-02 19:37 +1200
Re: a style question: jt@toerring.de (Jens Thoms Toerring) - 2015-08-31 23:33 +0000
Re: a style question: Bartc <bc@freeuk.com> - 2015-09-01 01:13 +0100
Re: a style question: Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com> - 2015-09-01 18:21 +1200
Re: a style question: jt@toerring.de (Jens Thoms Toerring) - 2015-09-01 15:23 +0000
Re: a style question: Bartc <bc@freeuk.com> - 2015-09-01 18:06 +0100
Re: a style question: Jorgen Grahn <grahn+nntp@snipabacken.se> - 2015-09-01 20:39 +0000
Re: a style question: jt@toerring.de (Jens Thoms Toerring) - 2015-09-01 20:45 +0000
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Re: a style question: Malcolm McLean <malcolm.mclean5@btinternet.com> - 2015-08-31 17:51 -0700
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