Re: [boost] Re: Threads docs updated in CVS

From: Iain.Hanson_at_[hidden]
Date: 2001-08-14 10:38:33

Author:  skaller (skaller_at_[hidden]) at unix,mime
Date:    11/08/01 06:37

>Iain.Hanson_at_[hidden] wrote:
     
>> (It's the same reasoning that leads to my intense dislike of 
>garbage > collection, and hence of Java, C#, Python, etc ad nauseam)
     
>Can you explain this?

I would if I'd said it. But I didn't. :-). I did express some sympathy with this
statement, although probably for different reasons to the original author. I 
personally dislike garbage collection because of performance, but more 
inportantly, because I find it harder to reason about the lfetime of heap 
allocated objects. For similar reason I'm not a fan of reference counted 
pointers. Maybe this is just too many years spent with C and C++ and getting 
very ingrained about being disiplined in thinking about resources and their 
lifetimes.

Java, I dislike, because if it was designed, it has been done very badly. Lack 
of dsetructors means no RAII. impossible to write a swap function for objects, 
single rooted inheritance hierarchy in a supposedly staticly typed language, 
lack of co-varient return types, no const return values, no const methods, 
impossable to have built-in types in collections, the list goes on and on.

C# ( I pronounce C hash :-) ) almost as good a name as wince. Basically a copy 
of Java with including the  flaws.

Python, looks o.k. given that its a scripting language. It looks cleaner than 
either tcl or perl, but i'm not really proficient in any of these, so probably 
not qualified to comment.

/ikh

     
     

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