I come not to bury C++, but to praise it...

[Ville Vainio]

>>>>> "Peter" == Peter Hansen <peter at engcorp.com> writes:

    Peter> Derek wrote:

    >> Absolutely correct.  But remember that ugly template-related
    >> compiler error messages are a reflection of current compiler
    >> technology, not a fundamental limitation of C++.  I suspect
    >> future compilers will make debugging templates much easier.

    Peter> I believe I heard that claim, almost verbatim, sometime
    Peter> around the last time I was actively using C++, which was
    Peter> about a decade ago...

Yes, C++ doesn't suck, it's the implementations. C++ will rock any day
now. Honest.

The same is true for Python - Python isn't slower than C, it's just an
artifact of the current implementation. Python-in-the-sky actually
runs 10-20% faster than C++ code.

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Ville Vainio   http://tinyurl.com/2prnb