Re: Best language for low IQ programmers?

["Eirik Mangseth" <no_spam_eirik@stockpoint.no>]

"jmburton" <jmburton@usenix.org> wrote in message
news:1005188797788841@usenix.org...
> > C++ is the best choice for dull programmers. The quality of your code
will
> > be indistinguishable from that of a the C++ guru.
>
> Are you a troll?
>
> In case if you are genuine, which I doubt, I disagree. Eiffel is a
> better language for dull programmers. Since Eiffel is usually abandoned
> before software goes into production, no one will ever have to deal
> with the inevitable bugs left by sloppy Eiffel programmers.
> Plus, poor performance due to bad algorithms designed by poorly
> educated programmers can be excused by the natural slowness of Eiffel
> (garbage collection instead of efficient on-demand memory allocation
> and deallocation).
>
> You have to know C++ anyway, as Eiffel is merely a front end to C++
> (it is compiled into C++, not native code), and requires external calls
> to C++ for anything useful like OS services.
>
> I studied Eiffel in college and have a buddy who used to program in
> that sad pathetic language, so I do know what I am talking about.

And pigs will fly.

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-- eirik

"If I can't Eiffel in heaven, I won't go"