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- From: dirk@demokrit.informatik.unibw-muenchen.de (Dirk Dickmanns)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.eiffel,comp.lang.c,comp.object
- Subject: Re: Beware of "C" Hackers -- A rebuttal to Bertrand Meyer
- Date: 15 Mar 96 00:16:43 GMT
- Organization: University of the Federal Armed Forces Munich
- Message-ID: <dirk.826849003@demokrit>
- References: <1995Jul3.034108.4193@rcmcon.com> <314628F2.31C8@aud.alcatel.com> <RMARTIN.96Mar13110714@rcm.oma.com> <4i862r$1evq@saba.info.ucla.edu> <4i99if$8ve@solutions.solon.com>
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- (Raise the dead-thread? That one came up half a year ago?!)
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- seebs@solutions.solon.com (Peter Seebach) writes:
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- >In article <4i862r$1evq@saba.info.ucla.edu>,
- >Jay Martin <jmartin@cs.ucla.edu> wrote:
- ...
- >>Its common knowledge that C is poorly designed and
- >>thus rabid worshipers of C are not too swift.
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- >Not poorly designed, just designed for different goals and a different
- >environment than you're working in.
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- Neither -- nor: not designed at all. It was a beautiful hack :-)
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- Couldn't resist,
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- Dirk
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- Dirk Dickmanns -- real-time dynamic computer vision
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