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#! rnews 1378 bsd Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!news.sprintlink.net!in1.uu.net!usenet.eel.ufl.edu!netline-fddi.jpl.nasa.gov!louie.disney.com!ahclem!thant From: thant@disney.com (Thant Tessman) 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 Followup-To: comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.misc Date: 28 Aug 1995 20:04:43 GMT Organization: WDI Lines: 14 Message-ID: <41t7gr$110@louie.disney.com> References: <40b4i2$egf@ixnews5.ix.netcom.com> <brockmanDDLJDL.2IJ@netcom.com> <41alha$b1g@cisunix1.dfci.harvard.edu> <DDowtJ.KL6@research.att.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: ahclem.rd.wdi.disney.com Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au misc.jobs.offered:205181 comp.lang.c:112159 comp.lang.c++:123059 comp.object:31448 comp.lang.eiffel:9168 alt.syntax.tactical:969 comp.lang.misc:17259 comp.unix.bsd.386bsd.misc:166 In article <DDowtJ.KL6@research.att.com>, ark@research.att.com writes: > C++ is not philosophically unsound. It is a consistent expression > of the viewpoint that C programmers should not be forced to discard > their existing code and knowledge in order to be able to program > in a more abstract style. In other words, C++ is philosophically unsound. -thant [followups trimmed]