On Thu, Mar 7, 2019 at 1:34 AM Rhodri James <rho...@kynesim.co.uk> wrote: > > On 06/03/2019 14:15, Calvin Spealman wrote: > >> C++ (a language I have no respect for) > > This was uncalled for and inappropriate. Please keep discord civil. > > That was the civil version :-) >
Ouch, did C++ burn you in the past? IMO it's a language that has way too many features stuffed into it (yes, the language, not just the standard library - the actual syntax is overly complicated IMO), but it isn't an abysmal language. There *are* horrendous languages in the world, and C++ is not one of them. That said, though, saying "I have no respect for" is a reasonably civil statement, but perhaps factually wrong. Here it is in context: > The behaviour you should expect even from C++ (a language I have no > respect for) is a compile-time error complaining that you are passing an > integer to a string parameter and vice versa. Sounds like Rhodri has strong expectations about how languages should behave, and C++ does fulfil this. So maybe there's some respect here after all :) But it wasn't terribly uncivil. ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
