From: "Marco Costalba" <mcostalba@gmail.com>
To: "Linus Torvalds" <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: "Pierre Habouzit" <madcoder@debian.org>,
"David Kastrup" <dak@gnu.org>,
"Frank Lichtenheld" <frank@lichtenheld.de>,
"Alex Unleashed" <alex@flawedcode.org>,
"Kyle Rose" <krose@krose.org>, "Miles Bader" <miles@gnu.org>,
"Dmitry Kakurin" <dmitry.kakurin@gmail.com>,
Git <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [OT] Re: C++ *for Git*
Date: Sun, 23 Sep 2007 20:05:55 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <e5bfff550709231105h94d08e2n9b1234e7c1a7e6a8@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.0.999.0709230911360.16478@woody.linux-foundation.org>
On 9/23/07, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
>
> There are a few features of C++ that I really really like. For example, I
> think the C preprocessor is absolutely horrid, and a preprocessor that is
> built into the language - and integrates with the syntax - would be
> wonderful. And while C++ doesn't improve on that, at least templates are
> an example of something like that. Not perfect, but that's the kind of
> feature that C really would like.
>
Yes, I really agree. IMO templates are the thing that more resembles
procedural programming, a common way of using them is to split data
structures (containers) from functions that operates on them
(algorithms). I find them very similar to the struct + functions
classical approach of C.
And BTW
template <typename T>
is the thing in C++ that more remembers me of opaque pointers and
their use in C, the difference is that the first is fully type
checked.
Marco
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-09-23 18:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-09-22 10:42 C++ *for Git* Dmitry Kakurin
2007-09-22 11:11 ` David Kastrup
2007-09-22 12:48 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-09-22 15:23 ` Marco Costalba
2007-09-23 4:54 ` Dmitry Kakurin
2007-09-22 15:15 ` Kyle Rose
2007-09-22 18:08 ` Miles Bader
2007-09-22 18:25 ` [OT] " Kyle Rose
2007-09-22 19:11 ` David Kastrup
2007-09-22 22:50 ` Alex Unleashed
2007-09-23 2:09 ` Frank Lichtenheld
2007-09-23 6:25 ` David Brown
2007-09-23 7:23 ` David Kastrup
2007-09-23 9:29 ` Marco Costalba
2007-09-23 9:42 ` David Kastrup
2007-09-23 9:50 ` Marco Costalba
2007-09-23 10:45 ` Pierre Habouzit
2007-09-23 13:42 ` Marco Costalba
2007-09-23 14:23 ` Nicolas Pitre
2007-09-23 14:45 ` Marco Costalba
2007-09-23 14:37 ` David Kastrup
2007-09-23 15:15 ` Marco Costalba
2007-09-23 17:49 ` Paul Franz
2007-09-23 16:54 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-09-23 18:05 ` Marco Costalba [this message]
2007-09-23 18:30 ` David Kastrup
2007-09-23 18:43 ` Marco Costalba
2007-09-23 19:11 ` David Kastrup
2007-09-23 21:22 ` Dmitry Potapov
2007-09-23 21:31 ` David Kastrup
2007-09-23 23:10 ` Robin Rosenberg
2007-09-23 22:25 ` Reece Dunn
2007-09-24 10:46 ` Dmitry Potapov
2007-09-22 22:24 ` Martin Langhoff
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=e5bfff550709231105h94d08e2n9b1234e7c1a7e6a8@mail.gmail.com \
--to=mcostalba@gmail.com \
--cc=alex@flawedcode.org \
--cc=dak@gnu.org \
--cc=dmitry.kakurin@gmail.com \
--cc=frank@lichtenheld.de \
--cc=git@vger.kernel.org \
--cc=krose@krose.org \
--cc=madcoder@debian.org \
--cc=miles@gnu.org \
--cc=torvalds@linux-foundation.org \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for NNTP newsgroup(s).