Can someone validate this

emclinux · 04-15-2009, 02:54 PM

I found this and I don't know if it is true. I know if someone put it on the internet it must be true. It is an interview with Stroustrup about C++ being invented to be so complex that it would never be used seriously.

Here is a link

http://harmful.cat-v.org/software/c+...it_for_you_all

jf.argentino · 04-15-2009, 03:10 PM

Well!!! If it's true, it's a nuke.
If it's true, I could now argue that I'm not the only one who think that C++ is just crap...

Nylex · 04-15-2009, 03:41 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by emclinux

I know if someone put it on the internet it must be true.

That's sarcasm, right?

jf.argentino · 04-15-2009, 03:44 PM

Quote:

For the past few months, a hoax interview between Stroustrup and Computer has been making the rounds in cyberspace.

Read there:
http://www.research.att.com/~bs/ieee_interview.html
This dream was too beautiful to be true...

Sergei Steshenko · 04-15-2009, 04:18 PM

Well, another must read is this: http://yosefk.com/c++fqa/ .

emclinux · 04-15-2009, 04:49 PM

Well I guess this is settled, Thanks jf.argentino

jlinkels · 04-15-2009, 09:32 PM

But it still is a wonderful interview! So true! In the past I joked with my colleagues that Stroustrup must have pulled Kernigan and Ritchie into a bar, got all very drunk, and then drew up C++. And decided to make the language as much write-only as possible and pushed orthogonality to an insane level, far beyond where C stopped at the point where it was still useful.

That summarizes pretty much that first interview.

And yes, I have to admit... although I can write OOP, I never mastered C++... sigh

jlinkels