McMaster University Creates Open Source eHealth Records System

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 11:41:43PM -0400, Andrej Marjan wrote:
> Do you consider template metaprogramming to be "mostly C"? For instance there 
> are portable numeric template libraries in C++ which are competitive with 
> vendor-tuned BLAS, and much faster than anything you can create in C. 

Well than _I_ can write in C yes.  Than anyone can write in C, no.
Especially given you could convert C++ to C (not very readable C, but
still C).  And of course if g++ is your compiler, I highly doubt it will
be anywhere near BLAS in performance.

> Modern C++ isn't an easy (or pretty) language by any means, but it's come a 
> long way since the early 90's. 

Yeah STL certainly made it bloated enough.

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Len Sorensen
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