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: 1995-01-22 13:18:26 PST Path: nntp.gmd.de!newsserver.jvnc.net!nntpserver.pppl.gov!princeton!udel!gatech!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!panix!cmcl2!thecourier.cims.nyu.edu!thecourier.cims.nyu.edu!nobody From: dewar@cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: C++ Envy Date: 22 Jan 1995 16:18:26 -0500 Organization: Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences Message-ID: <3fui32$q6g@gnat.cs.nyu.edu> References: <3f2tbv$r5o@miranda.gmrc.gecm.com> <3f9bha$r16@gnat.cs.nyu.edu> <3fcjp5$b0v@cronkite.seas.gwu.edu> <3fe433$evq@nonews.col.hp.com> <3fj4oa$9a8@cronkite.seas.gwu.edu> <3frte2$re5@cronkite.seas.gwu.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: gnat.cs.nyu.edu Date: 1995-01-22T16:18:26-05:00 List-Id: David O'Brien says "I'd just go change the class definition if is was pissing me off that much." Two comments. First this kind of attitude is of course anathema in a well run environment. Second, it makes me think David doesn't understand what a CM system does -- I guess a CM system which made it impossible to mess around because he felt pissed off would really get him mad! It's fascinating how people argue a point, and their style of argument and the points they make provide the best possible argument for the opposite point of view :-) "From the way you wrote, I'd say you have some hostility toward C++ programmers" No, just hostility to programmers who feel they can break the rules whenever they get pissed off :-)