Re: Lahman, how ya doing?
- From: "H. S. Lahman" <h.lahman@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 18 May 2005 19:18:50 GMT
Responding to Hansen...
I learned in comp.lang.c++ that should be
dolt(const big_honking_data_structure_reference&);
Right. Safety comes at an obscure price in C++.
[Apocryphal anecdote. Back in the early '80s I was trying to sell my shop on doing OO development. I conned three managers to go with me to an OOPLSA conference. Two managers went to a C++ morning tutorial while I and the other went to an Eiffel tutorial. We met at lunch and the other two mangers got there first.
As we walked up to the table the two managers were laughing hysterically. It seems the presentation had been pretty much typical C++ where there was ten minutes of description followed by thirty minutes of workarounds to avoid obscure problems. They regaled us for the entire lunch with anecdotes about having to do bizarre things to avoid foot shooting. One manager summarized with, "If I caught any of my people writing code like that I would break their thumbs." As a result I didn't get an OO pilot into the shop for another couple of years when both managers had moved on. (The manager who went with me to look at Eiffel was still there and ended up as a True Believer.)]
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H. S. Lahman hsl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Pathfinder Solutions -- Put MDA to Work http://www.pathfindermda.com blog: http://pathfinderpeople.blogs.com/hslahman (888)OOA-PATH
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