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From: diamond@diamond.csl.sony.junet (Norman Diamond)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Subject: Re: information hiding
Message-ID: <10435@socslgw.csl.sony.JUNET>
Date: 26 Jun 89 03:05:32 GMT
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Some poster (attribution previously deleted) writes:

>> Ultimately, I would like to give them a library containing my classes and
>> NOTHING else.

In article <6590164@hplsla.HP.COM> jima@hplsla.HP.COM (Jim Adcock) writes:

>I find it very comforting to be able to look at complex.h for
>example.  Reading it, I get the impression that the person writing it might
>very well know what they're doing.

Have you looked at your C compiler?  I still use C compilers and they
usually work.  But after seeing two of them, I get the impression that
the people writing them did not know what they were doing.  In some
cases, they did not even know the C language.  If a program works, has
been reviewed/benchmarked/whatever, maybe you're better off accepting
it without looking at its source code.

--
Norman Diamond, Sony Computer Science Lab (diamond%csl.sony.jp@relay.cs.net)
 The above opinions are claimed by your machine's init process (pid 1), after
 being disowned and orphaned.  However, if you see this at Waterloo, Stanford,
 or Anterior, then their administrators must have approved of these opinions.