From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: a07f3367d7,33fa575e7cd6d3e6 X-Google-Attributes: gida07f3367d7,public,usenet X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII Path: g2news2.google.com!postnews.google.com!x31g2000prc.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail From: Donald P Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: A little smile... Date: Mon, 15 Jun 2009 14:29:35 -0700 (PDT) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: 75.172.190.211 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: posting.google.com 1245101376 25659 127.0.0.1 (15 Jun 2009 21:29:36 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 15 Jun 2009 21:29:36 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: x31g2000prc.googlegroups.com; posting-host=75.172.190.211; posting-account=lTNY_AoAAAAKBrrA4kj0dwD7G2xnpkXM User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10_5_7; en-US) AppleWebKit/528.16+(KHTML, like Gecko, Safari/528.16) OmniWeb/v622.8.0,gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Xref: g2news2.google.com comp.lang.ada:6483 Date: 2009-06-15T14:29:35-07:00 List-Id: On Jun 15, 1:27=A0pm, mockturtle wrote: > ...for you Ada fellows. =A0[Do not take me too seriously... :-)] > =A0While goofling around (fooling around with Google) I found =A0this > quote _from_a_C++_book_ > > =A0 =A0"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=3D6b345ba1eb5f1cccdc49... > > has another interesting quote (from a C/C++ programmer, according to > the post) > > =A0 =A0 "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. :)