Re: [OBORONA-SPAM] Re: [OBORONA-SPAM] Re: [gentoo-user] Is Gentoo dead?

[Caveman Al Toraboran <toraboracaveman@protonmail.com>]

On Wednesday, April 22, 2020 8:32 PM, Michael Jones <gentoo@jonesmz.com> wrote:

> >   No-no. C++ is a nightmare. A few people want to use it.
>
> C++ is an extremely widespread language with millions of lines of code written daily world wide. 

i think that might be misleading as it seems to
imply that being a c++ dev is mutually exclusive
against being a c dev (is it? the languages agree on
many syntaxes/features).

i think the right way of thinking is as follows:

1. identify programming features needed to code
   a reliable pms.  i think most likely all we
   need is [recursive] function calls and
   if/else/loops.  the rest probably has to do
   with algorithms (independent of the language).

2. pick language that has features (1) and has the
   largest users base.  if the set of features in
   (1) is small enough (such as ones i suggested),
   then the c++ developers should be counted as c
   developers (because that part is common between
   c++ and c).

3. apply occam's razor.  if two languages are
   equally satisfying points (1) and (2), then
   choose the simplest one.  but if my thought is
   correct (that we only need the subset of
   features in c++ that's already in c), then c is
   guaranteed to have a greater effective number
   of developers in step (2).  hence, we will not
   even need to apply occam's razor to remove c++
   (unless points (1) and (2) result in a tie,
   which i don't think it does in this case).

> Lots of people want to use it. Just not people who want to write a PMS compliant package manager.

probably same kind of people that are headed to
blow their legs (and ours) in the process.