Re: [OT] Re: C++ *for Git*

On 9/23/07, Linus Torvalds [off-list ref] 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