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Two LSS talks

Posted Oct 11, 2013 9:24 UTC (Fri) by dgm (subscriber, #49227)
In reply to: Two LSS talks by mathstuf
Parent article: Two LSS talks

CDR exists. It's called Embedded C++: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embedded_C%2B%2B.

I always though ABC (A Better C) was a better name but, apparently, that's already taken.

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Two LSS talks

Posted Oct 11, 2013 10:00 UTC (Fri) by khim (subscriber, #9252) [Link]

Embedded C++ is very strange creature because it removes one of the most important advantages of C++: namespaces. Thing like a namespace is more-or-less required to manage large programs and Embedded C++ forced the same fourty years old substitute (prefixes and/or suffixes).

Frankly I don't see a point. It's not really compatible with C++, but it's not compatible with C either. It includes not usable rounded-up set features but bunch of easily implementable features instead. In short: it's something designed to brag about, not something designed with real work in mind. Very similar to LSB: both in idea and in implementation. Only LSB has slowly started to acquire useful features recently, while EC++ just died.

Two LSS talks

Posted Oct 11, 2013 10:57 UTC (Fri) by HelloWorld (guest, #56129) [Link]

Embedded C++ is a pathetic idiocy that remove tons of useful functionality without any reason and doesn't solve any of the real problems that C and C++ have. Quoting Stroustrup: "To the best of my knowledge EC++ is dead (2004), and if it isn't it ought to be." (http://www.stroustrup.com/bs_faq.html#EC++).

Two LSS talks

Posted Oct 15, 2013 12:05 UTC (Tue) by jwakely (guest, #60262) [Link]

There is nothing done right about EC++, you'll have to try harder than that.