Re:How to write code in modern Fortran (2011) [pdf]
by atemerev on Sunday January 27, 2019 @03:34PM
(#19013631)
CERN is an exception; they are famously a C++ shop. I really really don’t like C++; nearly anything else is preferable to me. Fortran is simple and math-oriented; C++ is horribly complicated and system programming oriented.
[ Parent
| on HN ]
Re:How to write code in modern Fortran (2011) [pdf]
by Gene_Parmesan on Sunday January 27, 2019 @05:10PM
(#19014060)
There is a subset of C++ that is really pleasant to work with, performant, and simple-ish. Unfortunately, the community around the standards/development processes just seem to want to keep adding more, more, and more to an already top-heavy language. Every idea in language design just must be added in.
When you add in the problems from legacy C compatibility, you have a language that no one person can ever hope to grasp in its entirety. I mean, it's so complex now it pushed Scott Meyers into semi-retirement.
I wish they would have just dumped C legacy stuff and started over some time in the 90s. Actually, the language D is precisely what I wish C++ had become. I just wish D was more widely adopted.