Author: Stuart Cracraft
Date: 14:41:00 12/20/05
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On December 19, 2005 at 18:37:05, Dann Corbit wrote: >On December 17, 2005 at 23:50:48, Zappa wrote: > >>It's really that simple. No one wants to deal with buffer overflows and memory >>corruption and all the bitchwork of C so that your program runs in 0.01 seconds >>rather than 0.1 seconds. > >Languages never die. >Most of the lines of code in the world are written in COBOL. That's today. > >BASIC is still here. > >Fortran is still here. > >C and C++ won't die or go away. > >Ironically, the warnings issued that raised the controversy have to do with >functions designed to fix the overrun bugs. True - but like old soldiers who never die but fade away... they'll fall into dis-use. Who remembers B or BCPL or BLISS? But seriously, it looks like the entire OOPS movement was well-named. It is software-bloat in an attempt to make a solitary profession be an attempt to have Team Programming, like Extreme Programming. An utter waste. Some bland corporation's attempts, just like the government, turns a beautiful language (C) into an ugly one (OOPS). Rubbish! Stuart
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