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Just a random thought: should we rename C++ to Java--?
(Excuse me…need to go put on my flame-retardant suit now.)
Note: Honestly, I have nothing against C++; for some reason the phrase Java-- popped into my head and I free-associated from there.
Hi! My name is Alex Miller and I live in St. Louis. I write Clojure for a living and currently work for Revelytix on semantic technology and big data products.
In the past I worked for Terracotta, BEA Systems, and MetaMatrix. I am the founder of the Lambda Lounge user group, the Strange Loop developer conference, and the Clojure/West conference.
Catch me on Twitter as @puredanger.
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No. It has been repeatedly demonstrated that side-effects are the biggest problem in software development, so let’s stop using ++ and --, and instead start calling C++ “sqrt(Java)”. That has the added benefit that if you value Java highly, C++ is lower, and if you don’t value Java much, C++ is higher, as square roots of numbers between 0 and 1 are higher than the number (e.g., sqrt 0.25 is 0.5.).
1/Java works quite well there too.
@Ricky: Awesome. I think I’ll just start calling myself Ricky--.
BTW, if you’re writing -- in any of these comments, WordPress will eat one of them due to some encoding fiasco, so instead use: --
Huh? This is strange. I think we should call C++ “log2(Java)” from now on. For once, as this is a binary view on languages, and for second, as the original idea was to discriminate the 0 bit language.
When first seeing C++, Bill Joy wanted C++++-= instead!
Why would c++ be called java–? I always thought of java as c++ with all the cool stuff taken out so as to not confuse the moron programmers.