Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Managing C++ Libraries: C++ too complex !!
Message-ID: <1988Nov17.211353.13358@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <179@tityus.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 17 Nov 88 21:13:53 GMT

In article <179@tityus.UUCP> jim@athsys.uucp (Jim Becker) writes:
>Is this a language that is great for the super human programmers, and
>one that becomes "write only" after a master has been at work?? ...

The same questions have been asked (in the form of assertions, actually)
about C.  Actually, a global s/C++/C/ on your article yields something
that mostly still makes sense.  I think the answers are the same for C++
as for C:  it is not a language for novices; it provides more than
enough rope to hang yourself if you are careless; producing good, clean,
readable programs requires judgement, care, and a professional attitude,
attributes that are not nearly as common as one would like.  C++ strengthens
these statements but does not change them much, except insofar as C++ is
young -- the time and experience needed to develop good judgement are in
short supply as yet.
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