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    <p>Well, the <em>ideal</em> would probably be to not need delete of any kind. Have a garbage-collected environment, let the programmer avoid the whole problem.</p> <p>The complaints in the rant seem to come down to</p> <ol> <li>"I liked the way malloc does it"</li> <li>"I don't like being forced to explicitly create objects of a known type"</li> </ol> <p>He's right about the annoying fact that you have to implement both <code>new</code> and <code>new[]</code>, but you're forced into that by Stroustrups' desire to maintain the core of C's semantics. Since you can't tell a pointer from an array, you have to tell the compiler yourself. You could fix that, but doing so would mean changing the semantics of the C part of the language radically; you could no longer make use of the identity</p> <pre><code>*(a+i) == a[i] </code></pre> <p>which would break a very large subset of all C code.</p> <p>So, you could have a language which</p> <ul> <li><p>implements a more complicated notion of an array, and eliminates the wonders of pointer arithmetic, implementing arrays with dope vectors or something similar.</p></li> <li><p>is garbage collected, so you don't need your own <code>delete</code> discipline.</p></li> </ul> <p>Which is to say, you could download Java. You could then extend that by changing the language so it</p> <ul> <li>isn't strongly typed, so type checking the <code>void *</code> upcast is eliminated, </li> </ul> <p>...but that means that you can write code that transforms a Foo into a Bar without the compiler seeing it. This would also enable ducktyping, if you want it.</p> <p>The thing is, once you've done those things, you've got Python or Ruby with a C-ish syntax.</p> <p>I've been writing C++ since Stroustrup sent out tapes of cfront 1.0; a lot of the history involved in C++ as it is now comes out of the desire to have an OO language that could fit into the C world. There were plenty of other, more satisfying, languages that came out around the same time, like Eiffel. C++ seems to have won. I suspect that it won <em>because</em> it could fit into the C world.</p>
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    1. COB-b-b-but deterministic finalizers are the essence, the heart, the soul of programming!
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