Name: Anonymous 2011-01-07 4:27
"Why?" you surely wonder. Actually, I didn't want to start yet another C++ discussion, mostly because alot of links from cat-v.org would fit perfectly in this context.
But there is this particular site of cat-v.org, that literally screams
Okay, just a boring link to an interview with Stroustrup (the billionth this time), where stroustrup explains why he 'created' C++ (again, a topic that had been discussed a billion times before).
But it's more about the quotes, not the link. It includes classy ones like this:
The author could as well have said:
Another fairly ``common'' argument against C++ is the lack of a Garbage Collector. My question is, why does a language that never creates garbage, a garbage collector? A GC is used in a language that doesn't run natively (read: compiled to machinecode, and the machine just runs the code literally), since the Virtual Machine has to organize allocated chunks somehow.
But since C++ doesn't run in a Virtual Machine, and therefore doesn't have a layer that is required to keep track of allocated and de-allocated references, the need of a garbage collector is simply void.
Don't get me wrong though, not everything of cat-v.org is bad; My personal favourite is this one: http://harmful.cat-v.org/software/GNU/ - Because it's simply the truth. Fuck GNU.
Oh dear cat-v.org, please continue to exist for the next thousand years, so that we always have something to point and laugh about (but mostly only the authors of cat-v.org themselves, of course).
But there is this particular site of cat-v.org, that literally screams
"HEY! LOOK AT ME! I'M LOUD! I'M ANNOYING! I SAY THINGS! I CRITICIZE EVERY POSSIBLE ASPECT! LOOK AT ME! LOOK AT ME DAMMIT". That particular site is: http://harmful.cat-v.org/software/c++/Okay, just a boring link to an interview with Stroustrup (the billionth this time), where stroustrup explains why he 'created' C++ (again, a topic that had been discussed a billion times before).
But it's more about the quotes, not the link. It includes classy ones like this:
"If you think C++ is not overly complicated, just what is a protected abstract virtual base pure virtual private destructor and when was the last time you needed one? " ---The author could as well have said:
"I don't understand language $XYZ, so it must be a) extremely bad, b) the work of satan himself c) the work of communists", instead of saying "I don't understand language $XYZ, but maybe it's because.... I never learned it! Or because I never bothered to learn it to begin with" - Not on cat-v.org. No.Another fairly ``common'' argument against C++ is the lack of a Garbage Collector. My question is, why does a language that never creates garbage, a garbage collector? A GC is used in a language that doesn't run natively (read: compiled to machinecode, and the machine just runs the code literally), since the Virtual Machine has to organize allocated chunks somehow.
But since C++ doesn't run in a Virtual Machine, and therefore doesn't have a layer that is required to keep track of allocated and de-allocated references, the need of a garbage collector is simply void.
Don't get me wrong though, not everything of cat-v.org is bad; My personal favourite is this one: http://harmful.cat-v.org/software/GNU/ - Because it's simply the truth. Fuck GNU.
Oh dear cat-v.org, please continue to exist for the next thousand years, so that we always have something to point and laugh about (but mostly only the authors of cat-v.org themselves, of course).