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Google's new "Go" language

Google's new "Go" language

Posted Nov 16, 2009 3:26 UTC (Mon) by quotemstr (subscriber, #45331)
In reply to: Google's new "Go" language by XERC
Parent article: Google's new "Go" language

To be more precise, C++ templates allow you to instruct the compiler to do work that would be very tedious by hand, but still possible. Consider the Linux kernel's red-black tree facility: you essentially get a kit for building a red-black tree, and you're responsible for putting together the relevant parts for your particular data structure. In C++, that can be accomplished with one line of code.

The FOSS community generally produces good software, but this odd cultural C++-phobia really needs to stop. C++ being considered harmful is harmful.


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