The Great Programming Language Continuum; or why C++ is dying

Re:The Great Programming Language Continuum; or why C++ is d... by YuriNiyazov on Sunday January 20, 2013 @03:20PM (#5088055)

Wow, have you looked at C++11? It brings in everything you love about functional languages and improves on it.

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Re:The Great Programming Language Continuum; or why C++ is d... by greyfade on Sunday January 20, 2013 @06:16PM (#5088712)

I wouldn't say "improves on it." It certainly does bring a lot of really nice functional features to the table (oh, I love async and lambdas, and futures are such a nice tool to have), and it fixes a lot of problems that have plagued the language for decades, but it doesn't "improve" on functional programming any more than Java does.

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Re:The Great Programming Language Continuum; or why C++ is d... by thwest on Sunday January 20, 2013 @03:38PM (#5088131)

I love C++11 but it still doesn't get me lazy evaluation

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Re:The Great Programming Language Continuum; or why C++ is d... by PommeDeTerre on Sunday January 20, 2013 @03:56PM (#5088196)

There are a variety of techniques for implementing lazy evaluation when using C++. What's stopping you from using these approaches, or using an existing library like Boost Phoenix?

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Re:The Great Programming Language Continuum; or why C++ is d... by greyfade on Sunday January 20, 2013 @06:15PM (#5088707)

It does have `std::async`, which is in the general direction of being close.

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