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From: chip@tct.uucp (Chip Salzenberg)
Newsgroups: comp.object
Subject: Re: Documenting OO Systems
Message-ID: <27F4D4BE.716@tct.uucp>
Date: 30 Mar 91 18:11:10 GMT
References: <20106@alice.att.com> <1991Mar26.191259.14470@i88.isc.com> <jls.670217665@rutabaga>
Organization: Teltronics/TCT, Sarasota, FL
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According to jls@rutabaga.Rational.COM (Jim Showalter):
>The culture that grew up around C is hackerish, undisciplined, and tends
>to produce code that is, indeed, indistinguishable from line noise.

Prejudice rears its ugly head.

Jim, any tool *must* be evaluated without reference to the milieu from
which it sprang.  To do otherwise is to discard ideas because of the
people espousing them, which is a truly close-minded course.
-- 
Chip Salzenberg at Teltronics/TCT     <chip@tct.uucp>, <uunet!pdn!tct!chip>
   "All this is conjecture of course, since I *only* post in the nude.
    Nothing comes between me and my t.b.  Nothing."   -- Bill Coderre