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Subject: Re: C++ Productivity
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In <JKVG.95Jan31214420@kamet.ccs.neu.edu>, jkvg@kamet.ccs.neu.edu (Jagadeesh Krishnamurthy Venugopal) writes:
>Matt> John Nagle (nagle@netcom.com) wrote: : bs@research.att.com (Bjarne
>Matt> Stroustrup <9758-26353> 0112760) writes: : >djohnson@arnold.ucsd.edu
>Matt> (Darin Johnson) writes : > > Actually, to be honest, one of the things I
>Matt> dislike most about C++ : > > is the rabid unthinking worship of it.  :
>Matt> >Huh? C++? ``rabid unthinking worship.''  : >You must be talking of some
>Matt> cult language.
>
>I will leave the language wars to persons more knowledgable than me, but one
>of my major grouses with C++ is the fact that almost all the books I have read
>about it, (and I have invested a fair amount of money in that pursuit) talk
>endlessly about the syntax, without giving you any idea of what you can do
>with it. 
>
>On the other hand I understand more of OO with one month of smalltalk than
>with about six months of wading through very poorly written C++ books.

I have to second this notion.  I have had to deal with numersous new
software engineers who want to use c++ for even the simplest of GUI
applications.  Yet I have seen whole businesses built out of things
like Visual Basic, where managers take advantage of the short
development times.
Matt Young
>
>
>
>jagadeesh
>--
>Jagadeesh K. Venugopal		| The more you study,
>Grad Student, CCS		| the more you realize,
>Northeastern University		| that there is a lot in your field
>Boston, MA 02115		| you don't know a thing about.
>
>

