Re: Simplicity has a future

Le 31-05-2006, Richard Heathfield <invalid@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> a écrit :
Le 31-05-2006, Richard Heathfield <invalid@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> a écrit :
[Any] C programmer having trouble understanding the code would probably
have trouble understanding "Winnie the Pooh".

What is your definition of "C programmer" ?

Someone who understands C.

All the C99 standard ?

When did you met C beginner last time ?

Have you read this newsgroup recently?

I read very quicky... There are everyday too much
messages for me.

e My C++ solution, however, is even simpler!

extern "C" {
#include "my_c_solution's_header.h"
};

and linking in <insert library name here>.

So C++ is simpler than C: that is what I wanted to illustrate ;-)

If you say so. But C is simpler than C++, *next* time, because *next* time I
need to use such a function, I can do this:

#include "my_c_solution's_header.h"

and link in the appropriate library, without bothering with all that extern
"C" nonsense. We call it "code re-use", and I recommend it to you.

Did you see my ";-)" ? This was humor, joke, not an argument.
I am not going to argument what first was an example (reading one line)
and second a joke ("extern C" makes C++ better).

I do not arge that C++ is better than C, neither the opposite.
But I desagree with "simpler is better". Turing-like langage would
have been the better solution with such argument. There is a
'good compromise' to find between the complexity of the tool and
the complexity of the problems.

Marc Boyer
.

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