Re: Questions concerning hyphenation patterns for non-Latin languages, e.g. Russian

[Robin Haberkorn]

25.04.23 19:51, G. Branden Robinson пишет:
>      While I'm pontificating I'll opine that I'm not a huge fan of C++ as
>      a language, but I have found with groff that, given discipline, and
>      by maintaining a clear view of its roots in C (_also_  not my
>      favorite language--but one alienating, enemy-making rant at a time),
>      and not picking up every f***ing new feature that gets shoved into
>      the language as soon as (or before) it's standardized, it_can_  be
>      managed.  But I also think that the C++ templating facility was, in
>      implementation, one of the worst features ever developed for any
>      programming language.

I would agree to that largely. The only acceptable C++ is the one close to C. 
Especially if you do indeed interface with C APIs. But even then it remains 
broken by design with its classes in headers, forcing you to expose every type 
belonging to your class to everybody. What's the benefit in C++, especially when 
restraining from namespaces? Deeply nested class hierarchies? You really 
shouldn't have those anyway. IMHO you can get much clearer and better isolated 
code (smaller headers anyway) with properly written idiomatic plain C code. It's 
the lesser of two evils. The preprocessor is one of those things I am also not 
happy with, although I found that C++ often pushes you to metaprogramming only 
for marginally improved typesafety compared to plain-C non-preprocessed 
solutions. As a side effect you get overblown binaries that will blow your cache 
hierarchies. On the other hand the C preprocessor could be made much more useful 
for metaprogramming with a few simple extensions...
I have not long ago migrated SciTECO from "C-like" C++ to plain C and I am not 
looking back!