Re: [dev] wmii display size issue

2010-09-10 Thread Kris Maglione
On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 11:48:28AM -0400, Benjamin Cathey wrote: I setup a secondary monitor to be used as my only display and have things almost completely worked out. Using 'xrandr' I have the external display on with the correct resolution and the laptop display turned off when I go into

Re: [dev] [OT] What's wrong with C++?

2010-09-10 Thread Kris Maglione
On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 08:19:38PM +0300, Nikhilesh S wrote: I must start out saying I don't have much experience in software development with larger teams on large projects or with lots of other people, or in 'commercial software development' in companies - I've just done stuff as a hobby in my

Re: [dev] [OT] What's wrong with C++?

2010-09-10 Thread David Tweed
On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 7:19 PM, Paolo wrote: > Why program in C++ when you can do it in C, making the program simpler and > better? One of my maxims is that "everyone mistakenly thinks that the kind of programs that they write are the kind of programs everyone writes". There are some domains in

Re: [dev] [OT] What's wrong with C++?

2010-09-10 Thread Ramil Farkhshatov
There is a good analysis of C++ monstrosity: http://yosefk.com/c++fqa -- Ramil Farkhshatov

Re: [dev] [OT] What's wrong with C++?

2010-09-10 Thread Szabolcs Nagy
* Nikhilesh S [2010-09-10 20:19:38 +0300]: > Is C++ broken because no one really understands it fully? Is allowing > multiple paradigms in a single langauge a problem? Should language > enforce paradigm? > > Could you elaborate in detail, what exactly are your problems with C++? > Thanks. :) i o

Re: [dev] [OT] What's wrong with C++?

2010-09-10 Thread Paolo
Uriel has a page on that, you can find some link there. http://harmful.cat-v.org/software/c++/ C++ inserts a serie of unneeded complexity to the straightforwardness of C. If you think object-orientedly, you sure imagine a lot of Player objects each with a Position object (x,y,z) referenced to a

Re: [dev] [OT] What's wrong with C++?

2010-09-10 Thread Pierre Chapuis
>Could you elaborate in detail, what exactly are your problems with C++? >Thanks. :) You should read http://suckless.org/devel/style_guide. Moreover the C++ standard is so bloated that to my knowledge no compiler ever implemented it completely (Can I haz importz?? 'cause code doesn't belong in

Re: [dev] [OT] What's wrong with C++?

2010-09-10 Thread v4hn
On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 08:19:38PM +0300, Nikhilesh S wrote: > I haven't really understood the problems with C++ that the people here > that have problems with C++ have[...] Felix von Leitner gave a pretty good presentation in 2007 on such problems :) http://www.fefe.de/c++/c%2b%2b-talk.pdf > Ma

[dev] [OT] What's wrong with C++?

2010-09-10 Thread Nikhilesh S
I must start out saying I don't have much experience in software development with larger teams on large projects or with lots of other people, or in 'commercial software development' in companies - I've just done stuff as a hobby in my free time for the past 5 years or so, learning on my own - but

[dev] wmii display size issue

2010-09-10 Thread Benjamin Cathey
I setup a secondary monitor to be used as my only display and have things almost completely worked out. Using 'xrandr' I have the external display on with the correct resolution and the laptop display turned off when I go into X (xrandr executes prior to wmii executing). However wmii's active