[Info-vax] The (now lost) future of Alpha.

[Chris]

On 08/07/18 20:36, already5chosen at yahoo.com wrote:

>
> Yes, unfortunately.
> There is small paragraph near the end full of incoherent rumbling.
> The 3rd Edition is much better in that regard. It has 3 reasonably wriitten paragraphs. It explains how GC and destructors poorly interact with each other
> and gives recommendations (essentially "Don't use non-trivial destructors" to
> users that still think that GC in C++ is good idea.
> But 3rd Edition is rather old, too. Since the large part of C++ user's community fall in love with RAII design pattern, so for them Bjarne's suggestions would probably sound as heresy.
> Now, the funny thing is that Stroustrup *invented* RAII.
>

I found Stroustrup a bit dense when I first read it. A far better book
describing the core language is the O'Reilly book by Satir and Brown. A
sort of K&R for C++. I'm sure there are even better ones.

Experimented with C++, liked some of the ideas and really wanted to like
it, but found myself asking, why ?. I like stuff to be
transparent from top to bottom with no side effects. C does that
and can provide enough abstraction where needed, even if it is a bit
more work...

Chris