Fundation of C++ language
I did not insist on purity of the current fashionable style…
at the time I was rather annoyed and purity is for nazis.
I don’t claim to know how everybody wants to write their code and I get rather annoyed when somebody comes in and think they know…
and I know they don’t! - Bjarne Stroustrup
- What you don’t use, you don’t pay for
- What you do use, you couldn’t hand-code any better
# Module
- are not transitive (only what is exported is imported vs full content of #include)
- import are commutative
- lead to faster compilation in general (with potential huge gain)
# Error handling
Error handling is not an absolute, there are many alternatives… (but people get emotional on that)
# Coroutines
# see also
- Bjarne Stroustrup Quotes / HN - C++ Is my favorite garbage collected language because it generates so little garbage
Written on December 29, 2021, Last update on December 17, 2023
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