Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uwm.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!samsung!cs.utexas.edu!romp!auschs!d75!awdprime!news From: news@awdprime.UUCP (USENET News) Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc Subject: Re: Relationship between C and C++ Message-ID: <1841@awdprime.UUCP> Date: 19 Mar 90 23:12:23 GMT References: <8432@hubcap.clemson.edu> Reply-To: cs.utexas.edu!ibmaus!auschs!sanders!sanders (Tony Sanders) Organization: contract to IBM AWD, Austin, TX Lines: 16 In article <8432@hubcap.clemson.edu> billwolf%hazel.cs.clemson.edu@hubcap.clemson.edu writes: -...Let's see what recently-quoted author Bertrand Meyer (...) has to say: - ... - I strongly disagree with this approach if the goal is to obtain software -quality. Take pointer arithmetic, for example. I would contend that you can -have quality software, or you can have pointer arithmetic; but you cannot -have both... "Quality Software" is NOT mutually exclusive with "pointer arithmetic"? I would contend that you can have quality software with pointer arithmetic, or no software at all. I would contend that you can write quality software without being a language bigot, or you can program in a high level language; but not both. -- sanders The 11th commandment: "Thou shalt use lint" For every message of the day, a new improved message will arise to overcome it. Reply-To: cs.utexas.edu!ibmaus!auschs!sanders.austin.ibm.com!sanders (ugh!)