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Richard Riehle <richard@adaworks.com> wrote in message news:<3DFD7E9D.69976C19@adaworks.com>...
> Hyman Rosen wrote:
> 
> > Grein, Christoph wrote:
> > > Oh, thanx, Fraser, for enlightening me what all this unreadable C junk means :-)
> >
> > This "unreadable C junk" runs the internet, and the newsgroup software
> > which is allowing you to disseminate your contempt. You should have a
> > little respect for your grandpappy.
> 
> Yes, and back on the farm we kept equipment operating by clever
> use of baling wire.
> 
> One of my colleagues asked me recently why I was so reluctant to
> use C or C++ for my programs.   I replied that C++ was reminiscent
> of the strike-anywhere matches our grandpappies named "barnburners."
> 
> Just today, I was reading a book on software architecture in which the
> authors acknowledged that the vast marjority of C++ is noted for
> being unmaintainable by anyone except its creator.

So is the vast majority of the code written in every other
popular language.  As the popularity of a language increases,
the average skill of the practitioners decreases.