Author: Bo Persson
Date: 05:08:12 08/14/04
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On August 12, 2004 at 14:24:37, Anthony Cozzie wrote:
>>>There are two ways to write C++: you can write it as C with a few nice syntax
>>>features to clean up your code, or you can (as you are evidently advocating)
>>>write it as an attempted high level language. The only problem with this is that
>>>you will fail miserably, because you still have to do your own memory
>>>management, etc.
>>
>>What memory management?
>
>OK. It is obvious you have never programmed in a true high level language.
Obviously not. :-)
>Please read http://www.haskell.org/aboutHaskell.html, and if you still don't
>understand I will attempt to explain further.
I do find the example somewhat amusing though, as the C++ equivalent of sorting
is written:
std::sort(a + lo, a + hi + 1);
This combines compile time polymorphism with C's "extremely ingenious technique"
of sorting the elements in place.
C++ - the best of both worlds ?
Bo Persson
Who still doesn't understand why C++ is a bad choice for chess programming.
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