Re: [ANN] llua Higher-level C API for Lua

[Coda Highland <chighland@...>]

On Sat, Mar 15, 2014 at 11:38 AM, steve donovan
<steve.j.donovan@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 15, 2014 at 6:46 PM, Coda Highland <chighland@gmail.com> wrote:
>> formatted like the rest of the project so it looked prettier than
>> random old-school-looking C calls interspersed with modern
>> Java-inspired C++.
>
> Heh, I can hear the C++ guys spluttering already.  Stroustrup said
> that Java was much more like Smalltalk than C++ really.  And the
> Modern C++ people are really into generic everything, Inheritance
> Considered Harmful, and all that.  One reason I prefer C is that the
> C++ community has far too many opinions.  I guess one needs a Style
> guide, or a Health and Safety guide, when dealing with a such a
> flexible bandsaw.

I'm a Qt C++ guy, not a STL C++ guy. CamelCaseAPIs > underscored_apis.
So visually it resembles Java but functionally it's all the best parts
of C++ without overemphasizing the annoying parts.

/s/ Adam