[Gllug] Office software -> c/c++ debate

[David Damerell]

On Saturday, 17 Nov 2001, Bruce Richardson wrote:
>It does sometimes seem to me that the architects of C++ (the guys on the
>standards committees) seem to be on a mission to ensure job security
>through obscurity.  A lot of the ordinary mortals who use C++ stick to
>the small subset of its features that they are familiar with and don't
>venture beyond.

Part of the trouble with C++ seems to me to be that for different
people, those subsets can be largely distinct, so they can't
understand each other's code. In C there is usually exactly one right
way to do a given job, so you don't have that problem.

[Mind you, I also enjoy Perl...]

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David Damerell <damerell at chiark.greenend.org.uk> flcl?

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