[ale] Language Jihad!

[Leonard Thornton]

At 04:40 PM 7/16/2001 -0400, you wrote:
>To do C++ right, requires a huge amount of setup.  It's worse than
>cobol.  You've got to create all your classes properly.  Now, to take
>advantage of this, you must reuse code.

I agree that C++ is something that becomes far more efficient and effective 
over time...

>No one writes C++ properly, no one reuses code.  Personal experience.

I beg to differ with you, but I have a number of commercial products 
running telephone switches for major carriers that have all been built with 
reusable C++ objects.  We regularly derive from and extend these objects 
for particular needs and have literally saved man-years by using C++ 
instead of C.  We develop new products in 6 weeks that our competitors 
cannot do in 1 year and the main reason for this is our reusable code base 
of C++ objects.  Yes, it has taken us 3 years to build this base of objects 
but we are now reaping the reqards in spades.

>What do I think is better than C++?  I prefer C.  I use other languages
>as well, but when it comes to the things I'd write in C++, I'd use C.

I like C, but I sure as hell would not want to maintain the systems I have 
out right now if I had to do it in C code.  C is great for small standalone 
projects, but rapidly turns into spaghetti when implemented in very large 
scale, multi developer systems.

YMMV...

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