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- From: ramsesy@rd.scitec.com.au (Ramses Youhana)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++
- Subject: Re: C/C++ knocks the crap out of Ada
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- Date: 22 Feb 1996 07:26:32 GMT
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- Richard A. O'Keefe (ok@goanna.cs.rmit.EDU.AU) wrote:
- > <snip>
- > (3) Precisely because they are popular, C and C++ are used by a lot of
- > programmers who shouldn't be allowed near a keyboard without a helmet
- > and padded knees. There is a lot of extremely bad C and C++ code.
- > It is easy for a language to get a bad reputation when nearly every
- > book you see has dreadful code in it.
- > <snip>
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- I agree. I would also include many engineers (and not just programmers).
- Far too many programmers and software engineers skip over the DESIGN process
- and jump straight into coding.
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- Ramses.
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