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- From: ell@access1.digex.net (Ell)
- Newsgroups: comp.object,comp.software-eng,comp.lang.c++
- Subject: Re: Moving from C to C++
- Date: 27 Jan 1996 01:08:04 GMT
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- Robert C. Martin (rmartin@oma.com) wrote:
- : In article <4e3du2$ian@gaia.ns.utk.edu> (Matthew B. Kennel) writes:
- : I'm a physicist: producing research results---not software---is my
- : main job.
-
- : Which is to say that it is the output of your software that defines
- : your results; and justifies your paycheck.
-
- He just said "I'm a physicist: producing results--not software--is my main
- job." So it is not simply, or mainly "the output of [his] software" that
- "justifies [his] paycheck.
-
- : Most software engineers produce results too. Except in their case,
- : it is the structure and health of their software that are the primary
- : results that justify their paychecks.
- :...
-
- : Yes, C++ is complex. But when it comes to engineering software in the
- : real world;
-
- He is "engineering software in the real world", just perhaps not at
- a large scale.
-
- Elliott
-