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From: dmn@stiatl.UUCP (Michael Nowacki)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.eiffel
Subject: Re: EC++, C++ and Eiffel
Keywords: (a reply to Dr. Meyer's posting)
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Date: 17 Nov 89 03:52:08 GMT
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In article <2942@ssc-vax.UUCP> dmg@ssc-vax.UUCP (David Geary) writes:
>
>  This is true, and, in fact my first thought when I read the EC++ posting
>was - "yeah, this is good stuff, but who is going to use it?".  There is 
>no way that I could get my boss to go for something like EC++  ...
>
>  I assume here that the obsolete technology is C.  Yes, it's true that
>C has many warts, and is not suited for Object-Oriented programming.
>However, much, much code has been written in C, and an object-oriented
>extension to C (that is close to being a superset of C) is, IMHO
>a good thing.

this is the reasoning that has extended the life(sic) of COBOL so long. as for
extensions, have you ever written any embedded-SQL code? it probably seemed as
much of a descretionary compromise as c++ does now, at first. 15 years from now
you'll probably be defending the continued use of the as-yet-to-be-invented
Zorch-plus(tm) system, because everybody else uses it, even though the newer
hcroZ-minus is demonstratively better.
managers aren't supposed to be creative, that's why they're managers. you can't
_manage_ an unknown entity, so they will tend to oppose radical innovation. 
they don't need you to be a devil's advocate. the principle that you pay now 
and reap the benefits later (or scrounge now and pay more later) is neither
new nor obscure in this industry. and if the technicians aren't going to keep
making this point, who will?
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