On Sun, Nov 15, 2009 at 04:33:06PM +0100, Uriel wrote:
Next you will tell me that because I said OO is evil, I must be
against function pointers. Go has no inheritance, and that is
basically the root of all OO evil (and inheritance is in mainstream
programming considered the defining characteristic of any OO
language.)
Actually I made up the term "object-oriented", and I can tell you I
did not have C++ in mind.
--Alan Kay
C was never perfect, starting with the abomination that is the
preprocessor. I have been saying for years that it makes little sense
to write user space code in C when you can use Limbo, Go is a better
limbo that also happens to be closer to C as a systems programming
language.
Limbo comes with too much baggage, namely a small OS that
doesn't even run on x86_64 in 64bit mode. Aside from that, it
doesn't run on bare hardware and so is orders of magnitude slowe
than C.
C always was, still is, and always will be, infinitely better than Java or C++.
Amen.
--
Kris Maglione
Are you quite sure that all those bells and whistles, all those
wonderful facilities of your so called powerful programming languages,
belong to the solution set rather than the problem set?
--Edsger W. Dijkstra
