On Sun, 2008-10-19 at 23:08 +0200, Achim Schneider wrote:
What kind of things, barring coding on Haskell-less platforms and library interfaces would you choose to do in C++?
I'm asking 'cos I'm learning C++ and can't get the proper motivation to do any program I can think of in it: If I need abstraction, I'm thinking Haskell or Scheme, and if I'm thinking performance, C itself more than suffices.
Plus template programming makes me shudder because of its atrocities against clear and straightforward FP, but that's a different matter.
I tend to use C++ whenever I strongly care about data representation (which is admittedly rarely.) You can use C for that; I just prefer C to C++ for almost everything. The only other thing that would almost certainly lead me to using C++ is if I needed to use to a C++ library. C++ is extremely difficult to interface to.
Coming to think of it, a compiler from a clean syntax to C++ templates sounds like a fun project... which I'd do in Haskell.
This is actually one of the first things I wrote in Haskell. It's not even much of a compiler but mostly just filling in the blanks of some templates. So I could write: fac 0 = 1 fac n = n * fac (n - 1) and get output akin to the example on wikipedia.