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daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mario Motta)
Tue Oct 13 12:38:31 1998
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1998 18:37:45 +0200
From: Mario Motta <mmotta@guest.net>
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Elliot Lee wrote:
> You're wrong about C being a bad ugly language that is ill-suited, and
> that C++ lets you do things more easily etc. etc. - I have yet to see > a good example.
i agree with Guillame here, these statement are annoying. Always the old
same story: religious or philosophical motivations, no pragmatic or
rational one. I know both C and C++, i don't know Objective C and i
can't say if it is a dead language or not, but as matter of fact
Objective-C code is a little part of the world-spread code.
Good examples of C++ ? It seems that we are confusing the languages with
software, software is good or bad indipendentely on wich language is
used. I know programs written in C++ that are good others ridicoulus,
same apply to C side. Perhaps that most of M$ software, written in C, is
good ?. If i should judge language from M$ software i can say that C is
the worst one. Knowing deeply any language, even COBOL, prevents any
serious and rational position against one or another, simply each
language is oriented to facilitate a programming paradigm. It's our
choice to use one or another: making OOP with C is a big effort, surely
a waste of time and resources, in other hand using C++ as "better C" and
making POP (Procedure Oriented Programming) is a waste ot time too.
Religious or fanatic positions pro or against a language hides the real
problem: we need clever programmers not clever languages.
> -- Elliot
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Mario Motta
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