Re: C++ Envy

[dobrien@seas.gwu.edu (David O'Brien)]

Jay M Martin (jmartin@kaiwan009.kaiwan.com) wrote:
: I am confused : "Change the makefile?".  Suppose a programmer

: Note that no changes need to be made to blah.h or the makefile. 
: Of course, a year later after the C stud has gone to greener pastures
: the classes in blah.h are changed causing all his code to break.

I believe you are referring to my statement, so I'll respond.  You have
*missed* the point.  The point that was brought up originally is that
Ada would have better protection over this than C because of CM
(configuration management).  I stated that C has the same "protection"
because large C projects also use CM.  In Ada the macho programmer could
also change the file they were editing.  BUT, the point (for either
language) is CM would provide a traciblity that something was changed
and who did it.

Personally I find this example quite stupid.  Like someone else said,
"I'd just go change the class definition if is was pissing me off that
much.".  This is quite a contrived example.  Granted it is quite
interesting in that fact that someone would think of this, and that it
is so simple.  But that is it, period.

From the way you wrote, I'd say you have some hostility toward C++
programmers.

-- David O'Brien	(dobrien@seas.gwu.edu)