From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 19365 invoked by alias); 20 Jan 2004 14:27:25 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gcc-help@gcc.gnu.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: Sender: gcc-owner@gcc.gnu.org Received: (qmail 19346 invoked from network); 20 Jan 2004 14:27:25 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ams003.ftl.affinity.com) (216.219.253.136) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 20 Jan 2004 14:27:25 -0000 Received: from coyotegulch.com ([4.4.125.218]) by ams.ftl.affinity.com with ESMTP id <2731912-882>; Tue, 20 Jan 2004 09:20:08 -0500 Message-ID: <400D3912.1000806@coyotegulch.com> Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2004 14:27:00 -0000 From: Scott Robert Ladd User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031107 Debian/1.5-3 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Gabriel Dos Reis CC: Mark Hahn , gcc@gcc.gnu.org Subject: Re: gcc 3.5 integration branch proposal References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2004-01/txt/msg01495.txt.bz2 Gabriel Dos Reis wrote: > Just for my education, what is insane use of C++? IS Boots sane or > insane use of C++? Insane, but useful and necessary for people who insist on using (or are required to use) C++ for heavy-duty array crunching. Such code is ugly, difficult to debug, and the only way C++ can approach Fortran 95's elegance. As such, a compiler needs to effectively handle template madness -- or we tell them all to use a *real* numerical language like Fortran 95 ;) -- Scott Robert Ladd Coyote Gulch Productions (http://www.coyotegulch.com) Software Invention for High-Performance Computing