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From: keng@apd.mentorg.com (Ken Giles)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Subject: Re: C++ and waitresses (long)
Keywords: C++, software reuse
Message-ID: <1991May30.224626.3175@apd.mentorg.com>
Date: 30 May 91 22:46:26 GMT
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In article <31061@dime.cs.umass.edu> connolly@livy.cs.umass.edu (Christopher Connolly) writes:
>
>My experience so far suggests that a more accurate statement might be
>"Many will successfully produce `.H' files.".  Certainly, there will
>be successful products implemented in C++, but in a major industrial
>site that I work at, there is an alarming trend: People who have been
>charged with writing C++ code have, by and large, been producing
>specs, class declarations and function prototypes in #include files.
>So far, even after several months, precious little actual code has
>been written. ...

Specifications? Prototyping? Sofware design? Before beginning the
implementation? Heaven forbid! :-)

kg.