From: dennison@telepath.com
Subject: Re: Software landmines (was: Why C++ is successful)
Date: 1998/08/25
Date: 1998-08-25T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <6rue87$sh2$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 6rsg0d$pcj@dfw-ixnews3.ix.netcom.com
In article <6rsg0d$pcj@dfw-ixnews3.ix.netcom.com>,
Richard D Riehle <laoXhai@ix.netcom.com> wrote:
> statements. In fact, I sometimes see people programming around the
> assignment by parenthetical nesting of function returns and find it
> confusing, reminsicent of the German sentences of philosophers who,
> in an attempt to extract every nuance from an idea without leaving any
> possibility for misinterpretation, along with, what seems to be an
> attempt to avoid using an excessive number of periods in their sentences,
> construct long, dependent clause-filled sentences, the effect of which
> is to leave one, if, in fact, one is still reading, without any sense
> of what the original idea might have been from the beginning.
Wow. You even write self-documenting prose. :-)
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1998-08-22 0:00 Software landmines (was: Why C++ is successful) dewar
1998-08-23 0:00 ` Dale Stanbrough
1998-08-23 0:00 ` Andi Kleen
1998-08-23 0:00 ` dewar
1998-08-24 0:00 ` Richard D Riehle
1998-08-25 0:00 ` Andi Kleen
1998-08-25 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
1998-08-25 0:00 ` dennison [this message]
1998-08-28 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1998-08-28 0:00 ` Richard D Riehle
1998-08-29 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1998-08-29 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1998-09-06 0:00 ` John G. Volan
1998-09-07 0:00 ` Mats Weber
1998-09-07 0:00 ` dewarr
1998-09-08 0:00 ` Tucker Taft
1998-09-08 0:00 ` Precalculation of parameters (was: Software landmines) dennison
1998-09-09 0:00 ` Tucker Taft
1998-09-09 0:00 ` dennison
1998-09-10 0:00 ` Tucker Taft
1998-09-10 0:00 ` dewarr
1998-09-16 0:00 ` Software landmines (was: Why C++ is successful) Matthew Heaney
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1998-09-01 0:00 ` Richard D Riehle
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1998-08-06 0:00 Why C++ is successful Robert Dewar
1998-08-07 0:00 ` harald.mueller
1998-08-07 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
1998-08-07 0:00 ` Timothy Welch
1998-08-08 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1998-08-08 0:00 ` Jeffrey C. Dege
1998-08-10 0:00 ` Laurent GUERBY
1998-08-12 0:00 ` Andy Ward
1998-08-14 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1998-08-14 0:00 ` Software landmines (was: Why C++ is successful) dennison
1998-08-15 0:00 ` Thaddeus L. Olczyk
1998-08-16 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1998-08-17 0:00 ` dennison
1998-08-18 0:00 ` adam
1998-08-19 0:00 ` Tucker Taft
1998-08-19 0:00 ` adam
1998-08-19 0:00 ` ell
1998-08-19 0:00 ` Charles Hixson
1998-08-19 0:00 ` adam
1998-08-19 0:00 ` Dan Higdon
1998-08-20 0:00 ` adam
1998-08-20 0:00 ` Dan Higdon
[not found] ` <m33eagru5g.fsf@mheaney.ni.net>
1998-08-31 0:00 ` Frank Adrian
1998-08-31 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
1998-08-31 0:00 ` Biju Thomas
1998-08-31 0:00 ` Robert Martin
1998-09-01 0:00 ` Martin Dowie
1998-09-01 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
1998-09-02 0:00 ` dennison
1998-09-01 0:00 ` dewarr
1998-09-06 0:00 ` Jonathan Guthrie
1998-08-20 0:00 ` Ell
1998-08-21 0:00 ` Ell
1998-08-21 0:00 ` John Goodsen
1998-08-21 0:00 ` Ell
1998-08-21 0:00 ` Ell
1998-08-21 0:00 ` Larry Brasfield
1998-08-21 0:00 ` Bob Collins
1998-08-21 0:00 ` Ell
1998-08-21 0:00 ` Jeffrey C. Dege
1998-08-20 0:00 ` Phlip
1998-08-21 0:00 ` Larry Brasfield
[not found] ` <DOSXjHE9T6DM9Jw9nAyaPxfz@news.rdc1.bc.wave.home.com>
1998-08-22 0:00 ` dewar
1998-08-24 0:00 ` dennison
1998-08-28 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1998-08-28 0:00 ` dennison
1998-08-30 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1998-09-06 0:00 ` John G. Volan
1998-08-31 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
1998-08-24 0:00 ` Martin Dowie
1998-08-24 0:00 ` Martin Dowie
1998-08-24 0:00 ` Mark A Biggar
1998-08-25 0:00 ` Martin Dowie
1998-08-25 0:00 ` Mark A Biggar
1998-08-26 0:00 ` Martin Dowie
1998-08-25 0:00 ` adam
1998-09-22 0:00 ` Charles H. Sampson
1998-08-20 0:00 ` Gerry Quinn
1998-08-16 0:00 ` Jay Martin
1998-08-17 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
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