Date: Mon, 09 Sep 2024 07:38:20 -0700
On Monday 9 September 2024 07:11:28 GMT-7 Jarrad Waterloo via Std-Proposals
wrote:
> Think too of the poor beginner programmers who don't need to be messing
> with pointers on day one, hour one but still have a need for their beginner
> programs to be configurable. The children man, think of the children! Stop
> giving them scorpions when all they ask for is a slice of bread.
It's not that we aren't thinking of them. It's that this is such a localised
problem, with so many legacy uses and thus hard to modernise. It requires a
lot of effort for exactly one gain.
wrote:
> Think too of the poor beginner programmers who don't need to be messing
> with pointers on day one, hour one but still have a need for their beginner
> programs to be configurable. The children man, think of the children! Stop
> giving them scorpions when all they ask for is a slice of bread.
It's not that we aren't thinking of them. It's that this is such a localised
problem, with so many legacy uses and thus hard to modernise. It requires a
lot of effort for exactly one gain.
-- Thiago Macieira - thiago (AT) macieira.info - thiago (AT) kde.org Principal Engineer - Intel DCAI Platform & System Engineering
Received on 2024-09-09 14:38:23