Re: Carbon

["Luke A. Guest" <laguest@archeia.com>]

On 27/07/2022 18:24, John McCabe wrote:
> On Wed, 27 Jul 2022 09:10:10 +0100, Luke A. Guest wrote:
>> It's depressing dealing with cretin's who all think they're geniuses and
>> think that their new idea is so radically different, but is just the
>> same old crap wrapped up in a functional style.
> 
> LOL - yeah, tell me about it. In this thread that I mentioned (https://
> github.com/carbon-language/carbon-lang/discussions/1720), I pointed out a

Jesus! "Aggressive" my arse and don't "insult C++" otherwise they may cry.

You made valid points. Points I've made before only to be ganged up on. 
These "people" just aren't worth dealing with imo. I wish more company's 
would dump c++, but they won't. I've even started reading, a while back 
and not finished yet, a java book, *spit*, at least there's no pointer crap.

> few things that I'm unhappy with in C++ that, in Ada, are "solved" and
> have been for decades. The result is that someone who appears to have

Yup.

> very little software development experience misinterpreted the comments
> about half-baked features and locked the thread.

The only language I've seen which is a replacement for C, but is really 
Pascal underneath is Odin ("Pascal in a C dress," Ginger Bill). But even 
that doesn't really add much in the way of syntax sugar, it's quite 
basic like Go.

> Now, personally, if I were in a position where I was tasked to uphold a
> code of conduct whose aims were to provide a welcoming forum, and not
> being nasty to people, my response to this would NOT be:
> 
>> "Please stop. Our moderators are empowered to decide if conduct is
>> within our norms our not. The conduct team acts as a check to ensure
>> they are correct. We have thoroughly reviewed and agree all the
>> moderators involved in this are correct."

Exactly.

> While the hypocrisy left me almost speechless, I did have to laugh :-)

Sounds like an echo chamber where they all agree that c++ has had it's 
day, but they still want c++ so are remaking it their way and their way 
is the only way. Can't say I'll be using it.