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Post #51,560 by tuberculosis 9/12/02 5:10:12 PM 8/21/07 6:40:26 AM Reply	What an opening "C++ projects would NEVER be just 2 weeks." Well of course not. You can't get a correctly written "Hello World" done in C++ in 2 weeks. I mean, there's all the constructors, and the destructors, and then either implementation or hiding of the copy constructors and the operator= just to have a minimally correct class, plus the memory management profiling and all that time spent with purify reconciling the different object ownership policies in the vendor libraries. Thats if you don't use templates. If you use templates, well god help you. I'm only half kidding. I think Java is a garbage dump. But C++ is the Love Canal of application development environments. I am out of the country for the duration of the Bush administration. Please leave a message and I'll get back to you when democracy returns. Edited by tuberculosis Aug. 21, 2007, 06:40:26 AM EDT What an opening "C++ projects would NEVER be just 2 weeks." Well of course not. You can't get a correctly written "Hello World" done in C++ in 2 weeks. I mean, there's all the constructors, and the destructors, and then either implementation or hiding of the copy constructors and the operator= just to have a minimally correct class, plus the memory management profiling and all that time spent with purify reconciling the different object ownership policies in the vendor libraries. Thats if you don't use templates. If you use templates, well god help you. I'm only half kidding. I think Java is a garbage dump. But C++ is the Love Canal of application development environments. I am out of the country for the duration of the Bush administration. Please leave a message and I'll get back to you when democracy returns. Collapse All History
Post #51,562 by admin 9/12/02 5:21:07 PM Reply	Don't forget... ... if the vendor library used Forte to compile, and you're using gcc, all the name mangling will be wrong... Regards, -scott anderson "Welcome to Rivendell, Mr. Anderson..."
Post #51,610 by tuberculosis 9/13/02 5:02:44 AM 8/21/07 6:41:31 AM Reply	Yes but C++ encourages open source! Because you can never count on getting compatible binaries. Actually, so does [link\|http://jode.sourceforge.net/\|Java]. Its getting harder and harder to rely on compilation to protect intellectual property - which I think is good - since I'm in favor of Lessig's 10 year copyright limitation for software and requirement to escrow and publish source. I am out of the country for the duration of the Bush administration. Please leave a message and I'll get back to you when democracy returns. Edited by tuberculosis Aug. 21, 2007, 06:41:31 AM EDT Expand All History
Post #51,699 by deSitter 9/13/02 9:05:41 PM Reply	Re: Yes but C++ encourages open source! At first I interpreted your message to mean "I don't expect compilers to agree on code." Is that what you meant? If so, then that's really F.Ued. -drl
Post #51,705 by boxley 9/13/02 9:57:28 PM Reply	long been that way I remember an app speced by one party that was to be flogged to a 3rd party who found out and wanted the source as it was their security system. Without going into details the app was built partly in c partly in gnu c with api's to bison. After the dust settled and the source xfred the new guy never could compile the code even though he had instructions as which went where. thanx, bill will work for cash and other incentives [link\|http://home.tampabay.rr.com/boxley/Resume.html\|skill set] [link\|http://home.tampabay.rr.com/boxley/index.html\|boxley's home page] qui mori didicit servire dedidicit
Post #51,698 by deSitter 9/13/02 9:03:12 PM Reply	That's Hideous -drl

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