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From: jmartin@kaiwan009.kaiwan.com (Jay M Martin)
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Subject: Re: C++ Envy
Date: 21 Jan 1995 22:39:30 -0800
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>Personally I find this example quite stupid.  Like someone else said,
>"I'd just go change the class definition if is was pissing me off that
>much.".  This is quite a contrived example.  Granted it is quite
>interesting in that fact that someone would think of this, and that it
>is so simple.  But that is it, period.

Do you understand configuration management?  You can't just go and
change the header file, it is protected.  Changing it would require
a special form signed by the President, Bozo the Clown,the Pope and their
Moms.

>>From the way you wrote, I'd say you have some hostility toward C++
>programmers.

Only incompetent ones (most C programmers).