I disagree with the author's central claim (where's the REPL?), but he makes an interesting point.
C++ has matured to the point where it has 95% of what a scripting language needs. It wouldn't be hard to write a thin wrapper that provided the final 5%, and it would come as a welcome convenience to programmer who are used to working with the C++ libraries.
Oh. Wait a moment. It's already been done. It's called Lua. Ho hum.
C++ has matured to the point where it has 95% of what a scripting language needs. It wouldn't be hard to write a thin wrapper that provided the final 5%, and it would come as a welcome convenience to programmer who are used to working with the C++ libraries.
Oh. Wait a moment. It's already been done. It's called Lua. Ho hum.