From: John Carter Date: 2005-07-14T06:27:37+09:00 Subject: Ruby has ruined my C++ These are exciting days in the world of C++. Every month the C/C++ User Journal is packed with exciting articles on brilliant innovations in the areas of... * Standards advancement Hashes WhooHoo! Regexes! At last! * Template metaprogramming * New template libraries. * Even Duck Typing! And I read it all and just feel vaguely nauseated. C++ is just so hard compared to Ruby. So fragile, so stiff, so error-prone with incredibly subtle gotchas on every corner. It pains me now to even look at C++, even though for many years it was my language of choice. Ruby advocacy is not merely sharing the pleasure, it's important for avoiding the pain of being forced financially back into writing C/C++... John Carter Phone : (64)(3) 358 6639 Tait Electronics Fax : (64)(3) 359 4632 PO Box 1645 Christchurch Email : john.carter@tait.co.nz New Zealand Carter's Clarification of Murphy's Law. "Things only ever go right so that they may go more spectacularly wrong later." From this principle, all of life and physics may be deduced.