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From: Martin Dowie <martin.dowie@btopenworld.com>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c++,comp.realtime,comp.software-eng
Subject: Re: [OT] Re: Teaching new tricks to an old dog (C++ -->Ada)
Date: Sat, 5 Mar 2005 17:52:36 +0000 (UTC)
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Peter Koch Larsen wrote:
> I sort of like this one as well - although raising an exception seems to be 
> to forgiving.
> My conclusion is that there are some nice ideas out there, but that they 
> mainly protect against the "sloppy" programmer.

Which the world is full of... :-(

It would be fine if the world only needed a couple of dozen good 
programmers, the cream would rise to the top and make very few mistakes 
and all our software could be written in the most forgiving language in 
the world and it would not matter.

But, of course, the world needs 100's of thousands (millions?) of 
programmers and they all have varying degrees of ability from the Guru's 
and God's to Joe Bloggs, who taught himself (badly) at home and is hired 
by his mates dad because he knew he was "into computers" and so on.

Cheers

-- Martin