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

[Mark McDougall]

On 17/11/2013 5:50 AM, Theodore (Alex) Evans wrote:

> 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.

OOP is one of the most misunderstand, and more importantly, misused, 
paradigms in computing. I tend to agree; people tend to look for a way to 
bend C++ to their problem rather than use the most suitable language and/or 
features for their problem.

And a badly-written C++ program is worse than a badly-written program in 
almost any other language (except COBOL, where a well-written program is 
worse than any other language) ;)

Regards,

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