"Breaking all the Eggs in C++" by Scott Meyers

Lynn McGuire

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Nov 16, 2015, 7:50:53 PM11/16/15

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"Breaking all the Eggs in C++" by Scott Meyers
http://scottmeyers.blogspot.com/2015/11/breaking-all-eggs-in-c.html

nullptr is growing on me.

Lynn

Lőrinczy Zsigmond

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Nov 18, 2015, 4:21:54 AM11/18/15

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On 2015-11-17 01:50, Lynn McGuire wrote:
> "Breaking all the Eggs in C++" by Scott Meyers
> http://scottmeyers.blogspot.com/2015/11/breaking-all-eggs-in-c.html

You should realise that C++ isn't mature yet,
it does change even in trivial things like 0/NULL/nullptr.

Cholo Lennon

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Nov 18, 2015, 2:06:22 PM11/18/15

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On 11/18/2015 06:18 AM, Lőrinczy Zsigmond wrote:
> On 2015-11-17 01:50, Lynn McGuire wrote:
>> "Breaking all the Eggs in C++" by Scott Meyers
>> http://scottmeyers.blogspot.com/2015/11/breaking-all-eggs-in-c.html
>
> You should realise that C++ isn't mature yet,

Could you provide an example of a mature programming language?

> it does change even in trivial things like 0/NULL/nullptr.

Why not? Paradigms and good practices change, evolve, like the
programming languages...

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Cholo Lennon
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Paavo Helde

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Nov 18, 2015, 2:13:51 PM11/18/15

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=?UTF-8?B?TMWRcmluY3p5IFpzaWdtb25k?= <zs...@nospam.for.me> wrote in
news:n2hfv5$su4$1...@speranza.aioe.org:

You meant to say it is not *dead* yet. A living language needs to change,
if not for other reasons then because the world is changing. And the whole
point of Scott Meyers is to propose a way for changing the language without
a fear of entropy death under the accumulated mass of obsolete features.

Cheers
Paavo

Scott Lurndal

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Nov 18, 2015, 4:03:35 PM11/18/15

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Cholo Lennon <cholo...@hotmail.com> writes:
>On 11/18/2015 06:18 AM, Lőrinczy Zsigmond wrote:
>> On 2015-11-17 01:50, Lynn McGuire wrote:
>>> "Breaking all the Eggs in C++" by Scott Meyers
>>> http://scottmeyers.blogspot.com/2015/11/breaking-all-eggs-in-c.html
>>
>> You should realise that C++ isn't mature yet,
>
>Could you provide an example of a mature programming language?

ALGOL? Bliss-32? Focal? BPL? SPL?

Juha Nieminen

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Nov 19, 2015, 4:09:57 AM11/19/15

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Scott Lurndal <sc...@slp53.sl.home> wrote:
> Cholo Lennon <cholo...@hotmail.com> writes:

>>On 11/18/2015 06:18 AM, LÅ?rinczy Zsigmond wrote:
>>> On 2015-11-17 01:50, Lynn McGuire wrote:
>>>> "Breaking all the Eggs in C++" by Scott Meyers
>>>> http://scottmeyers.blogspot.com/2015/11/breaking-all-eggs-in-c.html
>>>
>>> You should realise that C++ isn't mature yet,
>>
>>Could you provide an example of a mature programming language?
>
> ALGOL? Bliss-32? Focal? BPL? SPL?

Is "mature language" a synonym for "long ago dead fringe language"?

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Scott Lurndal

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Nov 19, 2015, 10:37:33 AM11/19/15

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Juha Nieminen <nos...@thanks.invalid> writes:
>Scott Lurndal <sc...@slp53.sl.home> wrote:
>> Cholo Lennon <cholo...@hotmail.com> writes:

>>>On 11/18/2015 06:18 AM, LĹ?rinczy Zsigmond wrote:
>>>> On 2015-11-17 01:50, Lynn McGuire wrote:
>>>>> "Breaking all the Eggs in C++" by Scott Meyers
>>>>> http://scottmeyers.blogspot.com/2015/11/breaking-all-eggs-in-c.html
>>>>
>>>> You should realise that C++ isn't mature yet,
>>>
>>>Could you provide an example of a mature programming language?
>>
>> ALGOL? Bliss-32? Focal? BPL? SPL?
>
>Is "mature language" a synonym for "long ago dead fringe language"?

ALGOL is not at all dead, and is in production today at hundreds
of sites. Yes, the VAX is toast, so Bliss-32 (which was really
mainly used internally at DEC) is dead. Focal was widely used
in its day, with ports to PDP8, PDP11, VAX and others. There is
still a bit of BPL code running after 40 years. SPL (the systems
programming language for the HP-3000) has been dead for a while
to the best of my knowledge.