Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2003 14:45:29 -0800 From: "kosmos" <abowhill@blarg.net> To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How do hackers drive? Message-ID: <20031031224529.GA608@dsl-129-176.sea.blarg.net>
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>I recently started reading Eric Raymond's _The_Art_of_UNIX_Programming_ and >it's gotten me taking another look at the way I am in general. >Other programmers drive this way as well, correct? You have an argument. Every carload of programmers I have ever been with (particularly C-programmers) can agree on where to go, but it's an issue on the specific route to get there. Usually the dominant programmer wins, and the driver loses. I am in professional training change, Journalism->Programming (a hard, long, math catchup), and if the objective is a 5-minute trip to the store, I find myself meandering aimlessly though the countryside, miles away, looking at the cows and trees. I am of course _thinking_ about math and C++ projects, but that's probably not a good sign. >The revelation is that I'm starting to understand that many non-programmer >_don't_ generally evaluate their car trips like this. Just out of curiosity, how do you think C compares to C++? Or what do you think of OO-languages in general? -- Allan Bowhill Very few profundities can be expressed in less than 80 characters.
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