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From: ramsesy@rd.scitec.com.au (Ramses Youhana)
Subject: Re: C/C++ knocks the crap out of Ada
Date: 1996/02/22
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Date: 1996-02-22T00:00:00+00:00
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Richard A. O'Keefe (ok@goanna.cs.rmit.EDU.AU) wrote:
>	<snip>
> (3) Precisely because they are popular, C and C++ are used by a lot of
>     programmers who shouldn't be allowed near a keyboard without a helmet
>     and padded knees.  There is a lot of extremely bad C and C++ code.
>     It is easy for a language to get a bad reputation when nearly every
>     book you see has dreadful code in it.
>	<snip>

I agree.  I would also include many engineers (and not just programmers).
Far too many programmers and software engineers skip over the DESIGN process
and jump straight into coding.

Ramses.