I had already read the article, thanks for sharing. "Expressiveness" is an entirely subjective term which merits little discussion. In my opinion, any pointer passed in which is not marked const refers to a return buffer. If you study libc's prototypes, you can see the established convention of passing in the address of the return buffer(s) first.
Back in 1993 I would have asserted confidently that C++ will overtake C in a decade or so. Live and learn.
I have noticed that in most circles I have communicate with (I started around 2000), abstractions are welcomed (within limits), while in the embedded domain, the feel with the hardware is appreciated more. There seems to be a scale ranging from bare metal to functional programming.
It would be an interesting exercise to see which concepts make code more expressive for you, and which for me, and if there are certain 'clusters' of developers that benefit from the same kind of style. Probably there are some studies about it already - I'll have to look around.
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I had already read the article, thanks for sharing. "Expressiveness" is an entirely subjective term which merits little discussion. In my opinion, any pointer passed in which is not marked const refers to a return buffer. If you study libc's prototypes, you can see the established convention of passing in the address of the return buffer(s) first.
Back in 1993 I would have asserted confidently that C++ will overtake C in a decade or so. Live and learn.
I have noticed that in most circles I have communicate with (I started around 2000), abstractions are welcomed (within limits), while in the embedded domain, the feel with the hardware is appreciated more. There seems to be a scale ranging from bare metal to functional programming.
It would be an interesting exercise to see which concepts make code more expressive for you, and which for me, and if there are certain 'clusters' of developers that benefit from the same kind of style. Probably there are some studies about it already - I'll have to look around.