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

[billg999 at cs.uofs.edu]

> 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) ;)

Blasphemy!!!  COBOL is a fine language, in the hands of a good COBOL
programmer.  But it is often very misunderstood.

bill