Re: [NTLK] [OT] Bigger than iWalk

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on 08/01/02 02:48, BK at bk_newtontalk_at_yahoo.com wrote:
[snip!]
> It's not unlike that new movie that came out recently where one guy
> falls in love with what he sees as a gorgeous girl because of a spell,
> while in reality she has a figure resembling that of an elephant. The
> only difference is that in the movie it is one guy who doesn't see the
> real thing and within technology it is the crowd who is under a spell
> not to be able to see how backwards everything really is.
>
> rgds
> bk

Well said!

-Laurent.

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C++ /C'-pluhs-pluhs/ n.: Designed by Bjarne Stroustrup of AT&T Bell Labs as
a successor to C. Now one of the languages of choice, although many hackers
still grumble that it is the successor to either Algol 68 or Ada (depending
on generation), and a prime example of second-system effect. Almost anything
that can be done in any language can be done in C++, but it requires a
language lawyer to know what is and what is not legal-- the design is almost
too large to hold in even hackers' heads. Much of the cruft results from
C++'s attempt to be backward compatible with C. Stroustrup himself has said
in his retrospective book "The Design and Evolution of C++" (p. 207),
"Within C++, there is a much smaller and cleaner language struggling to get
out." [Many hackers would now add "Yes, and it's called Java" --ESR] 
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