[Freeciv-Dev] Re: curiosity

[Petr Baudis <pasky@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

> > Well not solid, but: I dislike C++. I don't want to start a holy war
> > on this. It just means that you have to define such fundamental
> > decision very early.
I agree. I dislike C++ too.

> point  taken ;) for some reason alot of people don't like c++ - or OO at all
> for that matter. i was that way for a while too, until i was forced to do c++
> dev at work. now i love it. it's just a great, powerful language - and it's
> easy to design for :)
Well, I just don't see any huge benefit in it.  Why C++ objects? What's wrong
on C objects? Inheritance? You can do it in C too. Templates are bloating and
discouraged anyway. So only benefit is even more bloated and unreadable and
messy code, we don't have enough of it already?

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