Re: A little smile...

[Donald P <prodraic@guerrillamailblock.com>]

On Jun 15, 1:27 pm, mockturtle <framefri...@gmail.com> wrote:
> ...for you Ada fellows.  [Do not take me too seriously... :-)]
>  While goofling around (fooling around with Google) I found  this
> quote _from_a_C++_book_
>
>    "Used without discipline, C++ can lead to code that is
> incomprehensible, unmaintainable, inextensible, inefficient, and just
> plain wrong." -- Scott Meyers, Effective C++
>
> Hmmm... Why am I experiencing such a cozy feeling? (You know, like
> being in front of a fireplace when outside a blizzard is going on? ;-)
>
> By the way, the original sourcehttp://www.theologyweb.com/campus/showpost.php?s=6b345ba1eb5f1cccdc49...
>
> has another interesting quote (from a C/C++ programmer, according to
> the post)
>
>     "Writing in C is like handing a loaded gun with a hair-trigger to
> a kid: more than likely, it's going to go off and hurt you. Writing in
> C++ is like handing a hand grenade with the pin already pulled to a
> kid: without a doubt, it's going to go off and hurt a lot of people."

Apparently, even with God on his side, the author of TFA can't write
decent C++ code. :)