Re: Resignations

[George <jirka 5z com>]

On Sun, Nov 22, 1998 at 04:52:52PM -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> The very things you see as downsides of C++ are what I see as its
> upsides.  All of the add-ons like templates, objects, type info and
> such can of course be coded in C -- but why re-invent the wheel again?
> C++, like Perl, gives you more productivity at the expense of run-time
> bloat (IMHO).  And I'm far more willing to be productive

yes .. why reinvent the wheel ... it only has to be coded once ...
the thing is that people seem to be very afraid of using libraries ...
there was a whole bunch of utility libraries written yet it seems noone
is using them ...

> The great thing about C++ is you only have to use what features your
> application needs; a lot of my "C++" code is really C code that uses a
> few special C++ features, like default or pass-by-ref args.  Plus C++'s
> type checking lets me be really slack.  :)

oooooh ... pass-by-ref is one thing that drove me nuts during
debugging I think one should see when one is passing a pointer and
when is one passing the variable itself

George

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