diarg | 11 years ago | on: Five Popular Myths about C++: Postscript
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diarg | 11 years ago | on: Ask HN: How to refresh on modern features of C++?
You want even MORE features in C++?. You have made Stroustrup happy.
diarg | 11 years ago | on: Emacs as the Ultimate LaTeX Editor
Indeed, Emacs rocks for LaTeX.
It would rock harder is someone(tm) implemented a visual version of LaTeX, for small quick documents and for newbie accessibility.
diarg | 11 years ago | on: Why Davis' TempleOS is better than Torvald's Linux
TempleOS rocks, indeed. Amazing work. And in a very small codebase.
diarg | 11 years ago | on: Apple goes to war with the BBC
Is a rational posture, when companies became that BIG they get above the law. I don't trust that companies neither the controls organisms in charge.
diarg | 11 years ago | on: Guile-WM: A Window Manager Toolkit for Guile Scheme
Wayland provides something similar to xcb, so guile-wayland can be written in the same way that guile-xcb is.
diarg | 11 years ago | on: Guile-WM: A Window Manager Toolkit for Guile Scheme
Sawfish rocks, but is implemented in c and scripted through lisp (in a dialect called "Rep").
Guile-wm is lisp all the way down, is implemented with Guile-xcb, a X client written completely in Guile.
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Anyway, the more important fact about C++ is that it is a language complicated to no end, with an insanely bad design on purpose, so a couple of guys can sell consulting services, write books, and the like.
The year 2015 is about to come, let's just stop filling the world with such primitive and ugly ugly code. We have saner alternatives to C++ since ever.