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I don't believe. While the C++ commitee may be distant from the programming community, programmers could fork their way around if they felt too much suffocated. I agree that Qt is really a good piece of decent C++ software, and that didn't come from the C++ commitee.
Now, about people... I completely disagree. It isn't that people can be dumb sometimes. They
are always retards.
Myself included. It just happens that humans are very afraid of new experiences, just like the
fucking old Myth of the Cave. You can just see
here the amount of jokes directed to homossexuality or [dumbproof,enterprise,bloated] languages/softwares.
People with strong wording are just scared blockheads, and try to use (obscure) technical words to put challengers away, just because they are absolutely sure that their knowledge is the truth. Hyde, Graham, Stroustrup, and many others have different point of views because their usages of computers are also different. I can guess they have enough experience to judge what is most appropriate, but depending on the person you're asking, implementing something in CL instead of C++ can be either “done in a weekend with 2-3x slower” or “done in a week and 100-200% faster”, and both can be right, depending on the actual situation.
The
only true abomination really is the people that don't go out of the cave and keep blabbering that their choice is way better than yours. How can someone say that coke is better than pepsi if he didn't taste both? But what really makes me mad is that when I try to show these people something they just turn around yelling crap
!
(And that explains why “smart” people are: [a] extremely anti-social or
[b] almost divinely humble.)