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: fac41,9a0ff0bffdf63657 X-Google-Attributes: gidfac41,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,4b06f8f15f01a568 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 1108a1,9a0ff0bffdf63657 X-Google-Attributes: gid1108a1,public X-Google-Thread: f43e6,9a0ff0bffdf63657 X-Google-Attributes: gidf43e6,public From: "Larry Elmore" Subject: Re: Why C++ is successful Date: 1998/08/08 Message-ID: <6qhi8a$ee1$1@news.campus.mci.net>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 379143757 References: <6qfhri$gs7$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> <35cb8058.645630787@news.ne.mediaone.net> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3110.3 Organization: CampusMCI Newsgroups: comp.lang.eiffel,comp.object,comp.software-eng,comp.lang.ada Date: 1998-08-08T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: Robert Dewar wrote in message ... > >Undoubtedly at least *part* of the problem in using C is that people are not >sufficiently aware of what can go wrong. Microsoft has a rather amazing >book that pretends to be a book about software techniques, but in fact is >little more than a set of perfectly standard coding procedures to avoid >pitfalls in C. Would this be _Code Complete_, or perhaps _Writing Solid Code_? Larry