From owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Oct 31 18:08:05 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 58E7216A4CE for ; Fri, 31 Oct 2003 18:08:05 -0800 (PST) Received: from mta7.adelphia.net (mta7.adelphia.net [68.168.78.193]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7D26F43F93 for ; Fri, 31 Oct 2003 18:08:04 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wmoran@potentialtech.com) Received: from potentialtech.com ([68.68.113.33]) by mta7.adelphia.net (InterMail vM.5.01.06.05 201-253-122-130-105-20030824) with ESMTP id <20031101020807.NEGJ29257.mta7.adelphia.net@potentialtech.com>; Fri, 31 Oct 2003 21:08:07 -0500 Message-ID: <3FA31583.1010101@potentialtech.com> Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2003 21:08:03 -0500 From: Bill Moran User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20031005 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: aw1@stade.co.uk References: <20031031223405.GA534@dsl-129-176.sea.blarg.net> <3FA301F6.2010208@potentialtech.com> <20031101012208.B35870@titus.hanley.stade.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <20031101012208.B35870@titus.hanley.stade.co.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How do hackers drive? X-BeenThere: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Non technical items related to the community List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 01 Nov 2003 02:08:05 -0000 Adrian Wontroba wrote: > On Fri, Oct 31, 2003 at 07:44:38PM -0500, Bill Moran wrote: > >>I've always had a uncomfortable feeling in the pit of my stomach that C++ >>and other OO languages were more complicated than they needed to be. > > > Have a look at this (Spoof C++ Interview with Bjarne Stroustrup) > > http://www.dafydd.net/fun/cxxinterview.html > > It's quite old now, but still funny. > > As an ex C and nowadays mainly perl programmer I've some sympathy with > the spoof's thrust. That was pretty good. haha ... only serious. -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com