On Fri, Nov 25, 2005 at 12:52:22PM +0000, tom potts wrote:
Chris - you hate C++ because its powerful. And desktops hide complexity! Time to dig out that old machine code I think, and a few toggle switches for input - 8 enuf?
Who said I hate C++? It's my main bread earner. I do mostly, C, C++ and Java nowadays. I was just saying that for low-level comms. type stuff which is mostly sequential in the way it works that a non-OO language makes sense. For other things that I do then C++ and/or Java make sense.
Desktops as such don't hide complexity, they just mask it with a different complexity. A simple desktop may hide complexity but then so may a simple window manager with a different paradigm, how about TWM with a single xterm window on it?