Re:24-core CPU and I can’t move my mouse
by ajross on Monday July 10, 2017 @09:16AM
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Straightforward integration with existing tooling was not a "mistake", it was a design point. There were plenty of competing runtimes even in the 80's that were better than C's linker model. C++ succeeded because it didn't create that friction.
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> "but on those days probably it was one of the reasons why C++'s adoption took off."
I know "Design and Evolution of C++" quite well, and have been a C++ user since Turbo C++ 1.0 for MS-DOS.
Sure, but it wasn't a "mistake". Stroustrup absolutely wanted a C with classes, and that meant tight integration with C toolchains. Symbol mangling was the clever idea invented to implement that very deliberate choice, not a fortuitous happenstance.
I'm pretty sure @pjmlp is using the word "mistake" to say "a decision that turned out to be bad". English is not my native language, but judging by the ways I've seen it used and what dictionary definitions I can find, it seems quite acceptable.
Stroustrup made the decision on purpose and consciously, but it turned out to have disastrous effects.
Yep, you got it right.