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From: Al Christians <achrist@EASYSTREET.COM>
Subject: Obfuscated Code
Date: 1997/11/22
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Somebody wrote:

>> From the new Subject: I assume you have drawn the conclusion that I >> code
 in the above manner (the first 'weird' if(), I don't use the
>> second, but the point was that 'style imperialism' is stupid) to
>> purposely obfuscate. Nothing can be further from the truth. >> >> Obfuscated
 code can be written in absolutely any language, by >> absolutely everyone. In a
 bad spot, a decidedly 'clean'
>> coder can churn out a potful of spaghetti code.

But if you are getting into C++, there's a clue on page 12 in the
_Notes_to_the_Reader_ of Stroustrup's _The_C++_Programming_Language_
(3rd edition).  "Million line C++ programs are not uncommon".  This form
of expression warns the reader right up fornt that non-avoidance of
non-unconvoluted expression by non-eschewers of C++ is not dissimilarly
not uncommon.   Or as Marx said, "I can't say that I don't disagree with
you."

Al