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#! rnews 1981 bsd Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!pravda.aa.msen.com!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!EU.net!dkuug!Norway.EU.net!nac.no!ifi.uio.no!nntp!enag From: Erik Naggum <erik@naggum.no> Newsgroups: misc.jobs.offered,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.c-cat,comp.object,comp.lang.eiffel,alt.syntax.tactical,comp.lang.misc,comp.unix.bsd.386bsd.misc Subject: Re: Beginner to C/C++ looking for some good books Date: 31 Aug 1995 09:06:32 GMT Organization: Naggum Software; +47 2295 0313 Lines: 22 Message-ID: <19950831T090632Z@naggum.no> References: <40b4i2$egf@ixnews5.ix.netcom.com> <brockmanDDLJDL.2IJ@netcom.com> <41alha$b1g@cisunix1.dfci.harvard.edu> <brockmanDE5u28.5Lr@netcom.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: gyda.ifi.uio.no Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au misc.jobs.offered:204058 comp.lang.c:112011 comp.lang.c++:122881 comp.object:31398 comp.lang.eiffel:9149 alt.syntax.tactical:954 comp.lang.misc:17244 comp.unix.bsd.386bsd.misc:162 [daniel brockman] | It's standardized. if you're still referring to C++, there's a vote ending 1995-09-28 that might propel ISO/IEC CD 14882 to DIS stage, if approved. (CD = Committee Draft, DIS = Daft International Standard.) it is unlikely to be approved, because of the shoddy writing and truly humongous number of exceptions to every rule, spread out over the text. qua standard, the text is immature. | Use perl. or, if you must be object-oriented, tehn use Visual Basic. | With these you can be creative, useful, productive, even valuable. perl5 is purported to be object-oriented. it's a little less cryptic than C++, and people say that the object model is cleaner than C++ (which doesn't take much). (I don't know perl myself -- I prefer writing code I can be proud of on other bases than job security through unmaintainability, but just saying this might upset the misc.jobs.offered crowd, again.) #<Erik 3018848791> -- they accepted the results of science, but rejected its methods.