Reply to post: Re: Is C++ becoming too large and complex?

Re: Is C++ becoming too large and complex?

"So you would rather C++ be unchanging".

I don't see what you are getting at at all. Languages should be well designed in the first place. Even well-designed languages can undergo change. Even Eiffel has. Alan Kay has said he expected that Smalltalk would have been improved on by now.

But C++ started in a particularly bad place and has needed massive improvements, the to follow all the machinations of those 'improvements'. The excuse that C++ is evolving and becoming better is a pathetic excuse for what was not a very good language in the first place.

C++ rode on the popularity of C, and the popularity of C is also misplaced.