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- From: Tom Wheeley <tomw@tsys.demon.co.uk>
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++,rec.games.programmer
- Subject: Re: ! Read me and State your opinion.
- Date: Thu, 11 Apr 96 01:47:08 GMT
- Organization: City Zen FM
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- In article <4kgk0m$6lm@druid.borland.com> pete@borland.com "Pete Becker" writes:
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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.
-
- No, the `world of programming' is splitting.
-
- One one side you have the application builders, who bolt together components
- into applications which almost work as they intended.
-
- On the other you have the programmers, who either write the components, or
- write complete applications.
-
- .splitbung
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