From: Adam Beneschan <adam@irvine.com>
Subject: Re: A little smile...
Date: Tue, 16 Jun 2009 08:45:54 -0700 (PDT)
Date: 2009-06-16T08:45:54-07:00 [thread overview]
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On Jun 16, 12:43 am, MRE <Marc.Enzm...@web.de> wrote:
> On 16 Jun., 03:40, "Brian" <phaedrus...@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> > <snip>> "Used without discipline, C++ can lead to code that is
> > > incomprehensible, unmaintainable, inextensible, inefficient, and just
> > > plain wrong." -- Scott Meyers, Effective C++
>
> > </snip>
>
> > "Used WITH discipline, same thing!" -- Brian Salter, Defective C++
>
> Could this be an approach to improving Ada's popularity? Tell
> everybody, that
> usage of Ada can wreak havoc and is restricted only to REAL
> programmers? ;-)
It might help, but it wouldn't be enough. I think we'd also have to
eliminate all the keywords and replace them with sequences of
punctuation characters. :)
-- Adam
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Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-06-15 20:27 A little smile mockturtle
2009-06-15 21:29 ` Donald P
2009-06-16 1:40 ` Brian
2009-06-16 6:38 ` stefan-lucks
2009-06-16 13:41 ` Britt
2009-06-16 7:43 ` MRE
2009-06-16 9:17 ` Georg Bauhaus
2009-06-16 15:45 ` Adam Beneschan [this message]
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