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- From: warsaw@nlm.nih.gov (Barry A. Warsaw)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
- Subject: Re: Give me safe C++
- Message-ID: <WARSAW.92Dec16143900@anthem.nlm.nih.gov>
- Date: 16 Dec 92 19:39:00 GMT
- References: <9234501.15945@mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU> <Bz2nDF.7B6@fiu.edu>
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- Reply-To: warsaw@nlm.nih.gov (Barry A. Warsaw)
- Organization: Century Computing, Inc.
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- In-Reply-To: mat@mole-end.matawan.nj.us's message of 14 Dec 92 19:05:53 GMT
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- >>>>> Regarding Re: Give me safe C++; mat@mole-end.matawan.nj.us adds:
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- mat> Your high-level tools should be good enough that you'll never
- mat> think of using anything else for a job they can do. But when
- mat> they can't do the job--or more likely, a small part of the
- mat> job--you shouldn't have to forsake your high-level tools
- mat> entirely as a punishment for once using a down-and-dirty
- mat> approach.
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- This is exactly the point I was trying to make.
- Thanks for stating it so succinctly!
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