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- From: bjarnir@centrum.is (Bjarni Ragnarsson)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++,rec.games.programmer
- Subject: Re: ! Read me and State your opinion.
- Date: 12 Apr 1996 12:03:54 GMT
- Organization: BR Software
- Message-ID: <4klgra$sg5@newshost.centrum.is>
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- In article <4keq1d$11a@news1.mnsinc.com>, huang@mnsinc.com (Szu-Wen Huang) 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.
- >
-
- But then again, they didn't have Windows either :-)
- Time changes you know. If they had C++ you would most certanly
- have something else and today would be something like 2025.
-
- Swallowing my big toe.....
-
- Bjarni Ragnarsson
- bjarnir@centrum.is
-