[Coco] Somewhat OT: The life of a systems programmer

Sat Nov 16 13:50:39 EST 2013

On 11/16/2013 09:02 AM, Steven Hirsch wrote:

> I got a chuckle out of that.  It's a bit reminiscent of the Unix Haters
> Handbook by Jamie Zawinski.  That being said, C++ is really the only
> answer for a lot of scientific and engineering problems.

Sorry, Steve, I have to disagree.  Those problems are almost
invariably better suited to being dealt with by C, or even FORTRAN.
The range of problems where OOP features are necessary, or even useful
is very very small.