Posted Jun 18, 2008 20:51 UTC (Wed) by ncm (subscriber, #165)
In reply to: Snark by corbet
Parent article: Converting GCC to C++
Thanks, Jon, for the apology, but I'd rather see the summary corrected. The charges Ian
answered in those slides were assertions, by others, that he was contradicting. We should not
take them as his own statements.
As an aside, he also didn't suggest that luck would be needed. He seems completely confident
that use of "features which are [not] worthwhile" and any unmaintainably complex constructs
can be deliberately eschewed. Since a chief goal is to replace unmaintainably complex C with
maintainable C++, I agree with his confidence.