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From: rlk@telesoft.com (Bob Kitzberger @sation)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++,comp.software-eng
Subject: Re: Project experience with C++
Keywords: C++, project experience, learning, real life
Message-ID: <831@telesoft.com>
Date: 20 Jul 90 00:22:24 GMT
References: <812@agcsun.UUCP> <641@dg.dg.com>
Organization: TeleSoft, San Diego, CA.
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In article <641@dg.dg.com>, pkaikini@brahma.rtp.dg.com (Prasan Kaikini) writes:
> In article <812@agcsun.UUCP>, marks@agcsun.UUCP (Mark Shepherd) writes:
> |> I would like to find out if anyone out there has real-life, long-term
> |> experience with a substantial (tens/hundreds K lines of code) project 
> |> written in C++.

First a comment on testing:

> Reliability: don't know.  While testing of C software, itself seems to be a
> hopeless task, nobody seems to have a clue of how to go about testing C++
> software!

Then a claim that there are no cons:

> |>   - what are the pros/cons of doing a project in C++ rather than C
> 
> Cons: None - other than the learning involved!

Surely the ability to test and debug a product are critical facets of
software engineering.

Staying off of the C++ bandwagon,

	.Bob.
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