Re: C++

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From: peter (Peter da Silva)
Subject: Re: C++
Date: 17:14 on 02 Mar 2004
> > Even for a pervy Perl-lover that's scary.  C++ and "nice" don't belong
> > in the same conceptual framework unless there's a negation and a lot
> > of juicy expletives involved.

> Not having to do the malloc dance is nice.

If you're having to do a lot of memory tracking then you probably want to
get away from the C language family completely. Out of that whole family,
only C and Javascript have any elvis-nature.

> malloc is hateful. As are header files. It's like people went "I know - 
> what are computers good at - keeping track of things. So let's make the 
> human do it instead".

For the kinds of things I use C for, I'm much better at tracking memory
allocation than the computer is.
There's stuff above here

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