<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 8:07 PM, Benjamin L. Russell <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:DekuDekuplex@yahoo.com">DekuDekuplex@yahoo.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
On Sun, 19 Oct 2008 23:08:06 +0200, Achim Schneider <<a href="mailto:barsoap@web.de">barsoap@web.de</a>><br>
wrote:<br>
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>What kind of things, barring coding on Haskell-less platforms and<br>
>library interfaces would you choose to do in C++?<br>
><br>
>I'm asking 'cos I'm learning C++ and can't get the proper motivation to<br>
>do any program I can think of in it: If I need abstraction, I'm<br>
>thinking Haskell or Scheme, and if I'm thinking performance, C itself<br>
>more than suffices.<br>
><br>
>Plus template programming makes me shudder because of its atrocities<br>
>against clear and straightforward FP, but that's a different matter.<br>
><br>
>Coming to think of it, a compiler from a clean syntax to C++ templates<br>
>sounds like a fun project... which I'd do in Haskell.<br>
<br>
</div>Read the following uncensored interview with Bjarne Stroustrup, the<br>
designer of C++, and then tell me what you think:<br>
<br>
An Interview with Bjarne Stroustrup<br>
<a href="http://www.ariel.com.au/jokes/An_Interview_with_Bjarne_Stroustrup.html" target="_blank">http://www.ariel.com.au/jokes/An_Interview_with_Bjarne_Stroustrup.html</a><br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I'm pretty sure that "interview" is a fake one.</div>
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