On 10/14/23 09:12, Patrice Dumas wrote:
On Thu, Oct 12, 2023 at 10:25:23AM -0700, Per Bothner wrote:
C++ has a more extensive and useful standard library than C.
I guess there is an hash map, but I am not sure that we would need much
more.
In addition to hash maps and maybe some other container classes,
I suggest using C++ std::string as being safer and more convenient that C
strings.
I am not a good judge, but it is unclear to me that the rewriting in
perl was a mistake, it allowed to have the current design, which I
believe is much better than the design of makeinfo in C had. It is
easier to redesign in a high level language and then translate the parts
than need to be sped up to a low level language than do everything in a
low level language.
I think C++ is about as high-level as Perl, and I think you can
write programs that as similarly concise and legible.
My hunch is that tp/Texinfo written in C++ would be at most a small amount (20%
?)
more verbose, and to many (including myself) it would be much more readable.
Regardless, the one doing the work gets to choose their tools.
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