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From: tgg@otter.hpl.hp.com (Tom Gardner)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Subject: Re: Project Experience with C++
Message-ID: <2620016@otter.hpl.hp.com>
Date: 9 Aug 90 07:40:16 GMT
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Organization: Hewlett-Packard Laboratories, Bristol, UK.
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|I've recently had to rescue a
|fairly large C++ project (over 14 million of lines of code in the previous
|language) from the mentality that you can squeeze Smalltalk methodology into
|C++.  
|
|Marshall Cline

This sounds like a _very_ interesting real-life war story. I wouuld be very 
interested in learning what not to do... Please comment!

|For them (and for anyone programming-in-the-large, I believe), type
|safety is essential.

Beginners question: if there is global type checking then does this imply
that small incremental changes require very long compile and/or link times?
If so, what can be done to reduce the times?