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Subject: Re: Java vs. Smalltalk vs. C++ vs. OO COBOL
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Graham Stalker-Wilde (gstalker@csfbg.csfb.com) wrote:
|Dirk Wessels wrote:
|>  if I do not make bugs, the compiler does it for you
|> in C++ sometimes. 
|No way. if a compiler generated function screws up your code the bug is
|your own. Learn the language. 

Oh! Come On! You've never found a  bug  in the compiler, not seen  bug
report listings?  One that was  admitted by the compiler writers to be
a bug.

I'm glad you find that compiler writers do not  make mistakes,  unlike
other software developers.

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