[maemo-developers] What does Nokia's acquisition of Trolltech mean to Maemo?

[From: Simon Budig]

Klaus Rotter (klaus at rotters.de) wrote:
> But I often think C++ has to many features (for sure I didn't know them 
> all) and it is bloated whereas I think I know pretty much features of C.

I recently discovered the C++ FQA-lite at http://yosefk.com/c++fqa/

It is an entertaining read for language warriors and certainly
helped me to put arguments behind my dislike for C++. The author does
not even try to give a balanced view and responds to the answers in the
C++ FAQ lite. So it is definitely a skewed view on C++ but with a lot of
very good points on why C++ is a really bad language.

Quick example:
   a b(c);

If the above statement is in the top scope of a C++ file you cannot
decypher its meaning. In C it would be perfectly clear, you can even
derive a lot of information on a, b an c from this.

So C++ is not a context free language, which makes it also a hard task
to parse it, which in turn partially explains why C++ compilers are so
damn slow. They simply have to be slow because the grammar of C++ is
insanely complicated to parse.
 
I recommend the above link to every language lawyer  :)

Bye,
        Simon

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