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- From: sandvik@sgi.com (Kent Sandvik)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.smalltalk,comp.object,comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.java
- Subject: Re: The Good, the Bad, the Ugly, and the Wicked ...
- Date: Thu, 04 Apr 1996 10:29:44 -0800
- Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc.
- Message-ID: <AD895518966827BFD0@mac-sandvik.engr.sgi.com>
- References: <31570B8E.5A12@vmark.com> <31586721.1750@mobius.net> <4jbk0m$jt9@news4.digex.net> <AD7EDB45966858C12@mac-sandvik.engr.sgi.com> <315A17CC.7C8F@bnr.ca> <AD801A639668229B21@mac-sandvik.engr.sgi.com> <Jan-2903960007310001@206.116.214.1> <3163016C.3790@ac.com>
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- In article <3163016C.3790@ac.com>,
- "Terence E. Nims" <terence.e.nims@ac.com> wrote:
-
- >Jan Steinman wrote:
- >>
- >> What Kent is complaining about is only a development issue --
- essentially
- >> the same as complaining that a C++ compiler detects (most) type
- >> mismatches.
- >
- >Funny, I've heard that complaint by (not very good)
- >C++ programmers before.
-
- Hmm, I wasn't complaining (like fully dynamic dispatching, especially after
- two years of Newtonscript programming), and after using C++ since 1986
- (ported Cfront 1.2 to my UNIX box) I confess that I will never be a good
- C++ programmer, gave up after my tech note about C++ pitfalls got over 20+
- pages.
-
- Cheers, Kent
-
-
- Kent Sandvik, Silicon Graphics, Inc. Member of Technical Staff
- Email: sandvik@sgi.com Phone: +1 415 933-6417
- http://reality.sgi.com/sandvik/ (sgi http:/kent.engr/)
- "May all developers be happy."
-