From 3782500528072925881 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 109fba,d733139e7969f81d X-Google-Attributes: gid109fba,public X-Google-Thread: f78e5,d733139e7969f81d X-Google-Attributes: gidf78e5,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1994-09-26 18:23:59 PST Path: bga.com!news.sprintlink.net!howland.reston.ans.net!spool.mu.edu!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!ai-lab!life.ai.mit.edu!tmb From: tmb@arolla.idiap.ch (Thomas M. Breuel) Newsgroups: comp.std.c++,comp.lang.c++ Subject: Re: How relevant is ANSI C++? (Re: Is STL a good standard?) Date: 26 Sep 1994 20:43:06 GMT Organization: IDIAP (Institut Dalle Molle d'Intelligence Artificielle Perceptive) Lines: 20 Message-ID: References: Reply-To: tmb@idiap.ch NNTP-Posting-Host: arolla.idiap.ch In-reply-to: rfg@netcom.com's message of Sun, 25 Sep 1994 22:17:27 GMT Xref: bga.com comp.std.c++:4626 comp.lang.c++:30583 In article rfg@netcom.com (Ronald F. Guilmette) writes: |In article tmb@idiap.ch writes: |>C++ compiler writing is already a nightmare. And the Ellis and |>Detlefs proposal is not all that hard to implement. | |I'm going to keep repeating this as long as people here keep giving me |valid excuses to do so. | |_Everthing_ is `easy' as long as you are not the schmuck who has to |implement it. Language design should be oriented towards the user, not the implementor. If the implementor doesn't "like" implementing GC, too bad for him: he should change jobs. What matters to the user is what the cost and the benefit of a potential new language feature is. In the case of the Ellis and Detlefs proposal, the cost is low and the benefit is considerable. Thomas.