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Re:A plea for lean software (1995) [pdf] by leibwiht on Wednesday August 29, 2018 @09:10PM (#17873404)
I have to ask - does anyone actually use half of the C++ features? Exactly how much of C++'s 1600-page specification can be attributed to its success?
Re:A plea for lean software (1995) [pdf] by jcelerier on Thursday August 30, 2018 @07:33AM (#17875809)
> I have to ask - does anyone actually use half of the C++ features? Exactly how much of C++'s 1600-page specification can be attributed to its success?

do you also use all the classes of Python or Java's standard library ? C++17's spec is ~1400 pages (http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2017/n471...) but the actual language spec stops at page 406, the remaining 1000 pages are the specifications for the standard library. And in these 400 pages of specs, there are a lot of examples, grammars... just look at the chapter on templates: it's ~80 pages but more than half are valid & invalid code examples.

Re:A plea for lean software (1995) [pdf] by tonyedgecombe on Thursday August 30, 2018 @04:18AM (#17874923)
Does anybody even understand half of it?
Re:A plea for lean software (1995) [pdf] by huhtenberg on Thursday August 30, 2018 @09:07AM (#17876341)

    I don't know half of it half as well as I should like; and 
    I like less than half of it half as well as it deserves.

    -- B.B.