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Originally Posted by virtuald
the C++ implementation of NetworkTables is a *truly* horrible and complex piece of code -- it's clear that it was the author's first experience with writing C++ code (and he admitted this himself when I ran into him at WPI Battle Cry last year). The library needs a rewrite.
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Indeed, I heartily agree. (I know C++)
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Before last season I was helping the author clean it up and finish it so it could ship for the 2013 season. twards the end of november I looked at the code and send him a laundry list of suggestions, and among the responses were "Yes I created this in java. I did it in c++ to mirror the java api" and "Yah I know as I said I wasn't the right person to do this". As it was already the end of november, re-writing it was out of the question so I attempted to clean it up a bit. I managed to clean a few things up, like removing the custom UTF16 string class among other things. Then I moved over to making SFX, so never got a change to clean it up. I was hoping to with the C++11 project, but SFX took over my time, and there are not many good C++ devs. Sigh...
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Anyway, I will attempt to move these patches along, though no guarentees.
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25-02-2014, 17:28
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