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- From: pete@borland.com (Pete Becker)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++,rec.games.programmer
- Subject: Re: ! Read me and State your opinion.
- Date: 10 Apr 1996 15:27:18 GMT
- Organization: Borland International
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- In article <4keq1d$11a@news1.mnsinc.com>, huang@mnsinc.com says...
- >
- >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.
-
- The world of programming is changing, and mastery today requires much more
- powerful tools than it did ten years ago.
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