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- From: nabbasi@qualcomm.com (Nasser Abbasi)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++
- Subject: Re: C/C++ knocks the crap out of Ada
- Date: 22 Feb 1996 08:41:14 GMT
- Organization: QUalcomm Inc.
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- In article <4gh5r8$i2@mailhub.scitec.com.au>, ramsesy@rd.scitec.com.au (Ramses Youhana) says:
- >
- >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>
- >
- >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.
- >
-
- Well, do not blame them too quickly. What else would you do if you
- have to have the thing up and running 2 days from now? (that is
- what the schedule says). If you don't get it out of the door by
- thursday, someone else will and you'll lose some sale.
-
- No time to do much design is the most common answer to the question
- of why there is no or little design done befor jumping to coding.
-
- It is a sad state of affair, but I bet you a whole dollar that it
- is what happen in many places.
-
- Nasser
-