Shortage on C / C++ experts

[Martin Krischik <krischik@users.sourceforge.net>]

kevin cline schrieb:

>> Any suggestion that C++
>> is, as a general principle, safer than Ada is simply a fantasy.
> 
> It's not safer, AS A GENERAL PRINCIPLE.  But in the hands of experts, C
> ++ allows compile-time type checking that is impossible in Ada.

So does Assembler. Problem is that only 1% of C / C++ programmers are 
experts. You don't belive me? Well, on the last C++ project I worked I 
was the only developer who knew that virtual inheritance exitst. And one 
team created (simplification):

class A: IMouseHander, IKeyboardHandler
class B: public A, IMouseHander, IKeyboardHandler
class C: public B, IMouseHander, IKeyboardHandler
class D: public C, IMouseHander, IKeyboardHandler

This is how real live looks. Of course abstraction is bullshit. But 
using inheritance saved them aprox. 50 keystrokes per handler.

No such thing as "in the hands of experts" or "Good C++ programmers 
don't.". The feature is there it will be used. Whole teams go for years 
without a single "expert" at there disposal.

And when they asked the only expert around (me) it was to late.

> Heroic efforts are not necessary.  These days, about all that is
> necessary is to avoid writing code that produces compiler warnings.

Of course the team in question did not have /W4 activated - they used no 
/W at all witch is "/W0". They did not have an expert to analyse there 
compiler switches.

The bitter truth is: There are not enough experts around.

Martin