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- From: hammond_g@drkclu.meng.ucl.ac.uk (G. Ruth Hammond)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
- Subject: Re: Beware of "C" Hackers -- A rebuttal to Bertrand Meyer
- Date: Mon, 18 Mar 1996 11:53:12 GMT
- Organization: UCL Dept Mech Eng
- Message-ID: <1996Mar18.115312.46250@ucl.ac.uk>
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- In article <4i99if$8ve@solutions.solon.com>, seebs@solutions.solon.com (Peter
- Seebach) writes:
- |>In article <4i862r$1evq@saba.info.ucla.edu>,
- |>Jay Martin <jmartin@cs.ucla.edu> wrote:
- |>>No "hacking" is broader than that, it is writing poor code period.
- |>
- |>>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
- |>>compilers" and "I write terse code all on my line cuz its cool like
- |>>mathematics and gee, I is a mathematical genius or something",
- |>>the Eiffel programmer is basically going to get the job.
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- what's more important, using elegant constructs or getting the job done?
- as a recent poster stated, C hackers will slaughter an OO team any day
- in the real world.
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