Re: [RFC] Convert builin-mailinfo.c to use The Better String Library.

figo [off-list ref] writes:

http://www.research.att.com/~bs/applications.html

just as Bjarne once wrote in his TC++PL, its hard to teach an old dog new 
tricks. Its even harder to give quality education about how to use something 
to someone who doesnt want to learn.

you hate high level, then continue programming operative systems,
please NEVER DO something else. C++ was designed to give programmers
high level tools and still being able to take care about
performance.

portability wont be possible after a standard is published and some
couple of years given to the compiler developers. C++ had its
standard in 1998, and add two or three years for compiler development
= 2002. "Quite recently", way more recently that your last use of C++
I can bet.

Care to explain why there are still not two numerical C++ libraries
with compatible matrix classes?

What use is talking about portability and high level when a basic
interoperability feature that has been available since the sixties
(more than 4 decades ago) in Fortran has not yet managed to make it
into C++?  C++ by now more or less offers a (somewhat deficient)
standardized way to work with complex numbers, but matrices are still
not standardized in any manner, and libraries won't interoperate.

So C++ should get its head wrapped around the _low_ level problems
first.  It is a bloody shame that it still has not caught up with
Fortran IV (or even Fortran II) with regard to usefulness for
numerical libraries.

It is not a matter of "hating high level" to see that C++ is mostly
focused about addressing the wrong kinds of problems in the wrong
ways.  The pain/gain ratio is just bad.

-- 
David Kastrup