Re: PC Week and C++

[alexy@belknap.dartmouth.edu (Alexy V. Khrabrov)]

The resolution about c++ is definitely reassuring.  BTW,
I suggest a new visual interpretation of the C++ (or c++)
acronym.  It was a face of a programmer.  He/she was
looking at some would-be reusable components in c++,
trying to reuse them.  She/he was looking through
some would-be friendly software engineering tools,
trying to use them.  The pluses are the eyes, which
went out of the contour of the face after some weeks
of the search.

System 7.5 is great, but is essentially System Pro and
updates, with additions from shareware.  Of course,
after using Mac one cannot understand using anything else 
analogously to Ada turnung off other languages.  The
basic similarity between Mac and Ada is that they both
were _engineered_ with an idea of being better, were
done ``intentionally,'' as compared to the creatures
of necessity, mere greediness, or Brawn movement.  They
were intended to be beautiful and omnipotent, and to
large extent they are.

I guess PC Week finds "PC" in PowerPC of similar nature.
Then, hopefully, we'll see rehabilitation of the now-offensive
acronym.

Let's have a Happy New Year!

        Alexy V. Khrabrov <khrabrov@cccc.com>
        ``Age Quod Agis'' (Do what you're doing.)