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- From: mikael@academey.bastad.se (Mikael Bergqvist)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
- Subject: Re: Coding Standards
- Date: Sat, 23 Mar 1996 15:33:57 GMT
- Organization: Connection Bastad
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- pete@borland.com (Pete Becker) wrote:
-
- |>>> -a class which can be instantiated with a "new" must have
- a copy
- |>>> constructor, a destructor and an assignment operator definition.
- |>>
- |>>It's good discipline. Read Scott Meyers' books for more info.
- |>
- |>Unfortunately, if we follow everybodies good discipline guidelines,
- we would
- |>miss our October deadline by a few years.
- |>
-
- >Unfortunately, if you don't follow guidelines like this, you will miss your
- >subsequent maintenance deadlines by many years. You'll spend all your time
- >tracking down mysterious failures that arise when you try to enhance the
- >program, rather than spending time on the enhancements themselves.
-
- I completly agree, Our company is spending very much time on bug
- reducing. Trying to prevent bugs from the beginning is much cheaper in
- the long run! Not following standards and just writing the application
- and then trying to find the problem is wery hard to do and takes and
- incerdible amount of beta testing and staff.
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