Technical Difficulties from on Top of the Mountain
2011-02-06
  How they ruined C++
I think that C++ was a pretty good language. I've written some pretty good stuff, even template things. But STL just did everything wrong. Take a look at the example of iterating through a list sometime, its terrible. My version looks like this in contrast: 

  edata_list::iptr p(mylist) ; 
  while ( p ++ ) { p-> dosomething() ; }

Now they've added regex to C++, and its painful just to look at the examples: 

    std::tr1::cmatch res;
    str = "<h2>Egg prices</h2>";
    std::tr1::regex rx("<h(.)>([^<]+)");
    std::tr1::regex_search(str.c_str(), res, rx);
    std::cout << res[1] << ". " << res[2] << "\n";

Compare to what this would look like in perl: 

  my $str= "<h2>Egg prices</h2>";
  my ($tagstr, $word1, $word2)= $str =~ /<h(.)>([^<]+)/ ;
  say $word1. ". ". $word2 ;
Now, plenty of people have accused perl of being a write only language, but still, someone should have come up with something a little easier to type. Alas, guess we'll just all head over to javascript and get on with implementing solutions.

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