From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.8 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_DATE autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,57f23cc4dd455d6c X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1995-01-21 13:13:38 PST Path: nntp.gmd.de!newsserver.jvnc.net!howland.reston.ans.net!pipex!uunet!gwu.edu!seas.gwu.edu!dobrien From: dobrien@seas.gwu.edu (David O'Brien) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: C++ Envy Date: 21 Jan 1995 21:13:38 GMT Organization: George Washington University Message-ID: <3frte2$re5@cronkite.seas.gwu.edu> References: <3f2tbv$r5o@miranda.gmrc.gecm.com> <3f9bha$r16@gnat.cs.nyu.edu> <3fcjp5$b0v@cronkite.seas.gwu.edu> <3fe433$evq@nonews.col.hp.com> <3fj4oa$9a8@cronkite.seas.gwu.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: 128.164.9.3 X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Date: 1995-01-21T21:13:38+00:00 List-Id: 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)