Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!cbnews!shurr
From: shurr@cbnews.ATT.COM (Larry A. Shurr)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Subject: Re: Managing C++ Libraries: C++ too complex !!
Message-ID: <2212@cbnews.ATT.COM>
Date: 18 Nov 88 18:00:55 GMT
References: <179@tityus.UUCP> <1988Nov17.211353.13358@utzoo.uucp>
Reply-To: shurr@cbnews.ATT.COM (Larry A. Shurr)
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In article <1988Nov17.211353.13358@utzoo.uucp> henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) writes:

>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.

Indeed, I agree.  I wonder if it can be truthfully said that any program-
ming language does not provide enough rope to hang yourself, careless or
not.  And is there any language which does not require "... [good] judge-
ment, care, and a professional attitude?"

regards, Larry
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