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From: tblanch@lookout (Todd Blanchard)
Subject: Re: C++ Productivity
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Jeff Sutherland (jsutherland@BIX.com) wrote:
: >Huh? C++? ``rabid unthinking worship.''
: >You must be talking of some cult language.
: >
: >	- Bjarne

: Actually I find C++ experts to be much more objective about C++ than
: Smalltalkers are about Smalltalk.

Ha!  You made a funny!
I think part of the problem people have with C++ is that its very
easy to get started with but very very hard to become really 
*good* at.  I'd have to estimate only about 5% of the so-called
C++ programmers I meet and code I see is truly properly designed OO.

There is a lot of improper use of virtual, const, casting and otherwise
skanky stuff being done in what strives to be a very compile-time safe
language.

The worst thing I can say about C++ is that hardly anybody knows it,
but almost everybody who ever hacked some C thinks he does.

Todd Blanchard
