GNU Coding Standards: Writing Robust Programs

Re:GNU Coding Standards: Writing Robust Programs by groby_b on Friday June 11, 2021 @12:07PM (#27475117)

Having written software in the 90s: C++ was unusable for large-scale apps on commodity hardware. It was a neat toy. It had humongous compile times, and the runtime was suboptimal at best.

The choice was protracted language wankery with continuous (wrong) declarations of "Soon, the compiler will make it fast enough", or actually shipping software.

The balance started tipping in the early to mid-2000s. You could, if you were very careful, write decent-sized systems with good performance in C++ at that point, and the abstractions were starting to be worth it.

And I say that as somebody who enjoys C++, and has written code in it since the late 80s. Yes, on cfront. "Horses for course" always has been, and always will be, the major driver for language adoption. That particular horse wasn't ready in the 90s.

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Re:GNU Coding Standards: Writing Robust Programs by zabzonk on Friday June 11, 2021 @05:10PM (#27478543)

> And I say that as somebody who enjoys C++, and has written code in it since the late 80s

As have I, and I say you don't seem to know what you are talking about. I've been involved in writing very large Unix and Windows applications in the 1990s (starting in the late 80s), and have had no problems that you mention.

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