[Info-vax] Building for Customers, Revenue

Shark8 OneWingedShark at gmail.com
Tue Sep 16 13:14:59 EDT 2014


On 9/16/2014 8:28 AM, John Reagan wrote:
> On Tuesday, September 16, 2014 10:55:11 AM UTC-4, Shark8 wrote:
>
>> I think that the point is that C++ was chosen because it was
>> popular/modern -- yet the programmers still fell into the Y2K trap.
>
> No, it was because it was written by somebody in "sales management"
> and they probably didn't do any design documents, code reviews, or
> sufficient testing.

How would that constrain the choice of C++? I mean, unless the marketing 
had "written in C++!" as a point there's nothing there to force an 
implementation language one way or the other, right?

> The best hammer won't prevent you from hitting your thumb.

No, but that's no excuse to remove the blade-shield from your circular 
saw... or use one that comes w/o a shield.



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