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0 pointsChathamization8y ago0 comments

> incorporating whatever was the state of the art at that time

State of the art or flavor of the month? For instance, the features from functional programming that C++ and Java recently (in the last decade) added weren't anything new. When functional programming started to become more popular was when their features started showing up in C++ and Java.

If people are concerned that your language is already to large than adding elements from other programming paradigms because they're suddenly what's hot doesn't seem like a great idea. It feels like some languages are chasing the crowd, which can lead to a messy language ("OOP is all the rage now? Our language is all about OOP! Oh, functional is all the rage now? Well, we just nailed on some functional features!").

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gpderetta8y ago

Eh, C++ can hardly be criticized to pandering to the flavor of the month.

For example, lambdas were finally added only in C++11 even though while the STL had a functional flavor since the late '90s and sorely needed lambda expressions. Only after people went out of their way to build lambdas on top of macros, expression templates and whatnot, they were finally added to the language.

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gpderetta8y ago

Eh, C++ can hardly be criticized to pandering to the flavor of the month.

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