On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 02:18:21PM +0900, Jordi Beltran Creix wrote: > 2010/3/16 Marc Espie <es...@nerim.net>: ... > > the "C++ is crap, everything that matters should be written in C" > > mentality. ... > clang+LLVM is barely able of bootstrapping itself while already > generating highly optimized code for C and Objective-C for a long > time. If compiler-crafting C++ wizards have such a hard time getting > it right, what chance is there for "newcomers"?
Parsing C++ must be really difficult, but it doesn't stop idiots like me from making a living writing C++ code. If being capable of writing the front end to a compiler for a langauge were a prerequisite for programming in that language, then I wonder how many modules CPAN would have. Hmmm, I better not say that again. I can think of some people who would consider that a great gatekeeper for the profession: everyone has to write his or her own compiler for all the coding they do. -- Mike Small sma...@panix.com
