Re: what does "serialization" mean?

From: Programmer Dude (Chris_at_Sonnack.com)
Date: 06/24/04 

Date: Thu, 24 Jun 2004 11:50:08 -0500

Thomas stegen writes:

Pardon the piggy back--didn't notice this previously--for the record...

>> Chris Sonnack [...] claims to be an expert...

False for any subject matter.

>> ... on Visual Studio...

Particularly false with regard to VS.

>> ...but concentrates on C++ for VS...

False. I've used VB heavily since VB3, but only really got into C++ in the
last, oh, five-to-seven years or so, and got into VC++ about four-to-five
or so ago.

>> ...which is a flawed implementation of C++...

That much is true (but it's not all THAT far from the standard :).

>> ...and which allows by its rich set of non-OO features (such as the
>> preprocessor) the programmer to remain ignorant of OOD...

I suppose it could. C++ is hardly a strictly-OOP language. One can, in
fact, use it as a "pickier C w/ a better malloc/free and worse I/O". (-:

But any programmer who remained that willfully ignorant doesn't really
deserve the name "Programmer", and *serious* programmers explore other
languages and paradigms. 

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