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From: eachus@spectre.mitre.org (Robert I. Eachus)
Subject: Re: Why C++ is successful?
Date: 1998/08/12
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In article <6qrdn4$4ac@drn.newsguy.com> n@mail.NOSPAM writes:

  > sorry, but this is called meeting the big boss deadline. it is
  > very frequent occurance in the modern to post-modern computing
  > information systems age. got'a get that code out of the door fast,
  > else the competition will do it first!

    Hmmm.  Have you ever tried doing it right the first time?  Is the
real problem with Ada that there are too few of us old farts in the
programming business?

    Once upon a time I used to believe those young whippersnappers who
said they could write it in language XXX in half the time.  I remember
the last time I allowed someone to show me how quickly he could do the
job.  I, of course, cranked up gnat and had at it.  We both had code
running by the end of the day, but mine was finished, bug free,
including a test program that tested all requirements, and he still
had a few "glitches" to deal with, and hadn't even thought about
tests as such.


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					Robert I. Eachus

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