[Prev][Next][Index][Thread]
Re: Promoting Dylan...
On Monday, September 10, 2001, at 08:45 pm, Mark Jordan wrote:
> Yeah, you have to laugh ;-) Greatest strength indeed.
> I guess he's saying he has complete control,
The irony, this being C++, is that you haven't. You have the illusory
empowerment of thinking you've mastered a complex and obfuscated syntax
and set of libraries until you waste half a day on a non-virtual
destructor.
You have namespace pollution, mangled names and the exception/RTTI
overhead. Dynamic language users know how their GC works and can program
for it.
- Rob.
--
"The idea behind Dylan—to offer a range of dynamism appropriate to each
piece of an application—feels right, and after using Dylan you will
become frustrated with C++ and Java."
- Peter Norvig, Software Developer Magazine.
References: