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=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 109fba,b87849933931bc93 X-Google-Attributes: gid109fba,public X-Google-Thread: fac41,b87849933931bc93 X-Google-Attributes: gidfac41,public X-Google-Thread: f43e6,b87849933931bc93 X-Google-Attributes: gidf43e6,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,b87849933931bc93 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 1108a1,b87849933931bc93 X-Google-Attributes: gid1108a1,public X-Google-Thread: 114809,b87849933931bc93 X-Google-Attributes: gid114809,public From: feldmand@erols.com (Damon Feldman) Subject: Re: What is wrong with OO ? Date: 1997/01/30 Message-ID: <5covm0$t5@boursy.news.erols.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 213129783 references: <32D11FD3.41C6@wi.leidenuniv.nl> <5bub0e$jfc@uni.library.ucla.edu> organization: Erol's Internet Services newsgroups: comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.smalltalk,comp.lang.eiffel,comp.lang.ada,comp.object,comp.software-eng Date: 1997-01-30T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article , rmartin@oma.com (Robert C. Martin) wrote: >In article <5bub0e$jfc@uni.library.ucla.edu>, jmartin@cs.ucla.edu (Jay >Martin) wrote: > >> Since C >> programmers are notorously ignorant of computer language design, the >> audience is not too discerning. > >This is a an unworthy, biased, and biggotted statement. The only common >attribute shared by the class of people called "C programmers" is that they >write programs in C. While technichally true, I hope this doesn't mean that I have to stop insulting COBOL programmers when I see them on the street :-). Perhaps the original poster meant to say that programmers who *advocate C as a superior language* are ignorant of language design. This would have some logic behind it. Damon