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From: cws@janus.Quotron.com (Craig W. Shaver)
Newsgroups: comp.software-eng
Subject: Re: The De-Sovietization of the Software Industry
Summary: agree++
Message-ID: <614@janus.Quotron.com>
Date: 14 Sep 90 17:19:51 GMT
References: <1183@ashton.UUCP> <1990Sep13.152836.24228@tc.fluke.COM>
Organization: Quotron Systems Inc., Los Angeles
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In article <1990Sep13.152836.24228@tc.fluke.COM>, kelpie@tc.fluke.COM (Tony Garland) writes:
> In article ...
 ...
>     Languages such as c++ are examples where this most certainly will not 
>     be true.  Try taking a "cheap programmer" and getting something
>     useful out of c++.  Experience has shown that with such languages
>     "the strong get going and the weak get lost".
> 
>     Of course there are those that would argue that c++ isn't really
>     a higher-level language.  Maybe the creators of the language
>     had alterior motives (long term job security for software developers)
>     at heart?
> 
>     Sorry, I couldn't resist! ;-}
>  
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> Tony Garland  -  John Fluke Mfg. Co. Inc., P.O. Box C9090, Everett, WA  98206
> kelpie@tc.fluke.COM    |    voice  (206) 356-5268    |    fax  (206) 348 2661

Since first learning c++ I have felt that it is not a good answer to the
need for delivering quality software in a timely fashion.  You must have
very well qualified (and highly paid) programmers to at least develop the
basic tool sets.  c++ appears to me to have the potential for introducing
more problems than it alleviates.  If you follow the various c++ news groups
you will find the participants arguing about complex and arcane facits of
the language.  I think they have lost sight of the real goal -- developing
software for end users.  Smalltalk is much closer to what is needed.  The
c++ people need to rediscover the reasons for using an object oriented 
approach.

Craig W. Shaver

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