Re: Peter Coffee Strikes Again

[Ted Dennison<dennison@telepath.com>]

In article <DE4BEB94B03E194584F0068A671763BAB2C8B5@saipan>, Riehle, Richard
says...
>
>There is an entertaining column in eWeek (June 11, 2001, page 47) with the
>title, "C++ Falls Short of an 'A'," by Peter Coffee.   He has some kind
>words for Ada as well as for Java and Modula-2.  Some of you might
>want to thank him.

Actually, most of his "kind words" seem to be reserved for Java. He was nice
enough to parrot an industry report that they'd rather see Modula-2 or Ada in
use (based on type-safety issues, which I guess Java would share). Its a shame
that we have to be actively thankful when a journalist refers to a report with
actual information in it, rather than just mindlessly fanning the hype flames
like a palace eunuch, but I guess that's where we're at.

On a more positive note, I loved this comment:

"Is it an advantage that more C++ programmers can always be found when needed?
Or is it a serious problem that you always seem to need one more?"

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