I love it. A good ole lets duke it out between C and C++ programmers. Such a gentleman's sport compared to the (more full of opinionated ignoramii) java vs python vs ruby vs perl debates - or even worse - the dreaded apple fanboy vs linux geek vs windows pro debates that have become the predominant news on slashdot these days.
Why, exactly, is using STL a greater good from a compiler side?
Same as for any other large programming project: It makes it easier to write and maintain.
How, exactly, is easier to write and maintain code a greater good from a compiler side?
++ mod for originality
Somewhere in Redmond someone is sighing a long sigh of relief. Finally they say - finally - they stopped picking on us!
Hardware floppy drives are indeed obsolete. Welcome to the wonderful era of virtualization where he can have as many windows 98 "boxes" as he likes, all with their very own virtual floppy disks.
I beg to differ. It is a matter of adjusting your expectations and your IDE layout - like we haven't done that before. In my case I have learned to like and prefer the advantages of wide over tall given a single screen limitation. On a 1920 wide screen it is easy to place two or three editor views side by side in eclipse - useful for example when dealing with multiple related classes like manager, entity and DAO classes for a given "object" in a typical enterprise app. (Just drag the document tab for a class sideways and off the main editor panel). It's not ideal - vertical space is still important - especially with the proliferation XML config files and chatty bean setters and getters, but getting used to using code folding and ouline views helps. In the end, enough that I prefer wide over tall.
(Disclaimer: my 'primary' desktop workstation has three widescreens with one oriented sideways for max vertical scrolling power - I never said I did not like vertical space).
Barring the difficulty of proving sincerity in interest, this sounds like a pragmatic solution to the patent trolling problem.
With your bare hands?!?
