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- From: jdege@winternet.com (Jeff Dege)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
- Subject: Re: Why C++ sucks++
- Date: 5 Feb 1996 01:34:14 GMT
- Organization: StarNet Communications, Inc
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- References: <1996Jan29.223357.1@aspen> <310E4BE4.2781E494@questtech.com>
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- On Tue, 30 Jan 1996 11:48:36 -0500, Joshua Hoffman (jhoffman@questtech.com) wrote:
- : If all a programmer needed to do was display HELLO WORLD, Basic
- : would not be an unsuitable choice.
-
- If all I needed to do was display hello world, I'd do:
-
- #!/bin/sh
- # file hello
- echo 'Hello, world!'
-
- or:
-
- REM hello.bat
- echo "Hello, world!"
-
- : I think you have a lot more to learn at college before you are
- : ready for the real world programs.
-
- Including the fact that shell scripts are almost always the appropriate
- tool for problems of this complexity.
-
- RULE #7: Never write software when you can possibly avoid it.
-
- --
- When cryptography is outlawed, bayl bhgynjf jvyy unir cevinpl.
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