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- From: timb@erinet.com (Tim Berens)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.eiffel,comp.lang.c,comp.object,comp.software-eng
- Subject: Re: Beware of "C" Hackers -- A rebuttal to Bertrand Meyer
- Date: Sat, 16 Mar 1996 03:12:24 GMT
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- jremove@cyberramp.com
- >No "hacking" is broader than that, it is writing poor code period. It
- >is writing low level or obscure code when it is unnecessary because
- >you think that its great. You usually don't see such behavior in
- >then Eiffel, Ada, Modula*,etc communities. You only compromise your
- >software (like writing low level code) when you have a "gun to your
- >head", then you must curse like hell!
-
- SNIP
-
- >Hackers do not like the restrictiveness of an
- >Eiffel or an Ada or any other software engineering language, thus
- >these languages are not likely to attract hackers. C is
- >unrestrictive and attracts hackers in droves. I have never worked
- >with an Eiffel programmer, but given an Eiffel programmer spouting
- >high level design and implementation concepts and a C programmer who
- >says "I use pointer arithmetic cuz it may be faster, I don't trust no
- Much ranting about C hackers snipped
-
- >Jay
-
- Jay:
-
- Kind of ironic that the people who wrote Eiffel, Ada, Pascal, and
- all the other hackproof compilers are themselves hackers. Don't you
- think?
-
- Tim
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