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From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>
Subject: Re: Teaching new tricks to an old dog (C++ -->Ada)
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On Fri, 25 Mar 2005 21:33:36 GMT, Hyman Rosen wrote:

> Dr. Adrian Wrigley wrote:
>> Or to put it another way:
>> How come "more expressive" templates, "better exception handling",
>> or "less verbose" syntax is not claimed to improve project success?
>> Maybe I (still) don't get it.
> 
> To claim improved project success, you have to do some pretty difficult
> basic research. Most of us here are programmers, not software engineering
> researchers, so most of us at best have only anecdotal evidence. Therefore
> when we compare languages we do so from the basis of things that affect us
> as programmers.

Yes, this is of course true.

Yet it is very difficult to find competent C++ programmers. Even people
with years of practical experience are unable to do very basic things
already at the level of *using* a class/template library in a proper way.
To ask them to write reusable code... Then that evil C heritage, I see it
again and again, people doing some quite silly C-ish micro optimizations in
a loop where they create and destroy 10 string objects. It is not a science
it is just psychology...

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Dmitry A. Kazakov
http://www.dmitry-kazakov.de