stroustroup

It looks like the famous Bjarne Stroustroup quote holds true for markup languages as well as programming languages.

Bjarme Stroustroup is quite fond of demonstrating the superiority of vector even when complexity would suggest list was the right approach.

Bjarne Stroustroup describes it as experimental.

Programming in raw C++ using all its features is probably not productive - the code will not be readable by anyone except Stroustroup himself.

What I learn from this video is that Stroustroup is also misguided about linked lists.

It seems that Stroustroup was suprised by the applauses.

While this is true, and linked lists are somewhere between exotic and obsolete, the presentation by Bjarne Stroustroup had buried in it him saying 'the time to find the element takes so long a vector is always faster'.

> Bjarne Stroustroup is quite fond of demonstrating the superiority of vector even when complexity would suggest list was the right approach.

Bjarne Stroustroup is Danish (I think?).

I'm not just making this up, you can read talks by people like Bjarne Stroustroup on this topic) As to whether it matters for the algorithm, it depends on the algorithm.

- Stroustroup pleads C source compat else stillborn.

Any program that has to interact with a C library - Stroustroup would suggest library then to be wrapped to make it behave according to C++ style - if so - if the code is just calling a few library functions, C will be shorter and better by all his metrics.

First, it design principle espoused by Bjarne Stroustroup (my personal language designer "hero"): the compiler implementation should use well-known, straightforward techniques.

Try "A Tour of C++" by Bjarne Stroustroup it has less than 200 pages.

Stroustroup tries to bend your API to his liking only because in his opinion certain syntax is "older" and more "general".

(As a point of taste on the choice of prefix token: introduction of variables through "local" is just as weird as C++'s "auto" -- and at least Bjarne Stroustroup had an excuse for that choice.

Also how is Stroustroup's book for someone who finishes the C++ primer (which goes over just the basics).

Is that not Stroustroup's right as the author to choose whichever quote he feels best appropriate?

What does that to do with zero cost abstractions as described originally by Bjarne Stroustroup?