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- From: huang@mnsinc.com (Szu-Wen Huang)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++,rec.games.programmer
- Subject: Re: ! Read me and State your opinion.
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- Date: 9 Apr 1996 22:57:48 GMT
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- Chris Kemp (chrisk@paladn.com) wrote:
-
- : if you want to be a master of the machine, and if you are
- : using windows as your platform, C++ is literally the only
- : game. yes, it has a steep learning curve, but no other
- : language gives you the pointers and inheritance and
- : polymorphism that is needed to be a master. period.
-
- I presume this post came from comp.lang.c++. Tell us, Chris,
- if you consider Knuth or Kernighan or Ritchie or Thompson as
- "masters". Tell us, then, if they had C++, or inheritance,
- or polymorphism. Don't speak with such conviction next time,
- you tend to end up swallowing your foot.
-