On Tuesday, September 30, 2014 8:29:42 AM UTC-5, Felix.Frank wrote: > > On 09/29/2014 05:19 AM, Kylo Ginsberg wrote: > > I'm good with JVM, but C++ feels like a backward step in many regards. >> My judgment here may be clouded by reading too many blogpost of them >> naysayers. >> > > C++ should be a forward step from a performance/footprint perspective. > I'm guessing your backward step is from an ease of devel/debug perspective > for core? But say more so the concern is clear. > > Keep in mind that this would just be C++ for the client *core*. Puppet > very much needs to continue to support its existing Ruby API for extensions > (e.g. type and providers, custom facts). And yes this implies that the API > needs to be *defined* better than it is today (which is undoubtedly going > to take some collective rolling up of sleeves). > > > Hi, > > well I did read some arguments for C++ being quite flawed from a language > design perspective. I found those very compelling, but sadly cannot find > the link. >
I'm fine with C (which I use a lot), and I love Java, JVM and all. I'm satisfied with a wide variety of scripting languages. Although it's not chic, I even like Fortran for certain uses. But I hate C++. As for a link, the C++ Frequently Questioned Answers <http://yosefk.com/c++fqa/> helped me crystallize some of my previously less-focused distaste for C++. John -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/puppet-users/91faa7cf-b1b2-4b23-97e2-8c564f9f648c%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
