From: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 23 Sep 2007 18:05:55 GMT
Subject: Re: [OT] Re: C++ *for Git*
Message-ID: <e5bfff550709231105h94d08e2n9b1234e7c1a7e6a8@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.0.999.0709230911360.16478@woody.linux-foundation.org>

On 9/23/07, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
>
> There are a few features of C++ that I really really like. For example, I
> think the C preprocessor is absolutely horrid, and a preprocessor that is
> built into the language - and integrates with the syntax - would be
> wonderful. And while C++ doesn't improve on that, at least templates are
> an example of something like that. Not perfect, but that's the kind of
> feature that C really would like.
>

Yes, I really agree. IMO templates are the thing that more resembles
procedural programming, a common way of using them is to split data
structures (containers) from functions that operates on them
(algorithms). I find them very similar to the struct + functions
classical approach of C.

And BTW

template <typename T>

is the thing in C++ that more remembers me of opaque pointers and
their use in C, the difference is that the first is fully type
checked.

Marco