Well, instead of confronting these "experts" on the their actual knowledge of C++ vs "C with some nifty syntactic sugar," we should point out that VC 6.0 does not deal with (ISO) C++ and - more importantly - that C++ enables beauty of *use* of a library via complexity (viewed as "ugliness" by the untrained eye) of its *implementation*. I.e., one trades some hackery against beauty and non- redundancy of use. In fact, it would be enlightening to take this matter down to concrete code and show how a game engine task could be more succinctly expressed using the full power of C++ and Boost. I am willing to provide such a solution to any reasonably small sample code they present. Worrying about compilation time being two minutes greater makes an old geek like me smile. How about not programming according to the "apply random changes, recompile, suffer through errors and repeat" principle and instead actually thinking before hitting that compile button in that cute IDE. The only valid point that was presented was that of hairy error messages. Here the concept checkers of Boost can help, though. /David Sent from my iPhone On Jul 15, 2007, at 3:20 AM, "Steve Trutane" <trutane@gmail.com> wrote:
On this recent slashdot thread, there seems to be more griping than advocacy regarding Boost and template metaprogramming:
Any "Pretty" Code Out There? http://ask.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=250311&threshold=1&commentsort=0&mode=thread&cid=19862839
Just wondering if the Boost devs have any words of wisdom on this matter.
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