Date: Thu, 7 Mar 2002 05:21:28 -0600 From: D J Hawkey Jr <hawkeyd@visi.com> To: Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: C vs C++ Message-ID: <20020307052128.A65180@sheol.localdomain> In-Reply-To: <15494.64812.598093.56688@guru.mired.org>; from mwm@mired.org on Wed, Mar 06, 2002 at 11:39:56PM -0600 References: <LAW2-F145zHHwkqnpib00016ada_hotmail.com@ns.sol.net> <20020305164731.530B5BA03_i8k.babbleon.org@ns.sol.net> <200203061219.g26CJEJ61813@sheol.localdomain> <20020306191709.A55297@dragon.nuxi.com> <20020306215305.A64016@sheol.localdomain> <15494.64812.598093.56688@guru.mired.org>
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On Mar 06, at 11:39 PM, Mike Meyer wrote:
>
> D J Hawkey Jr <hawkeyd@visi.com> types:
> > First, you're ascribing me to a group I don't belong. While I don't know
> > Eiffel, or Lisp, or Modula, Snobol, etc., I don't demean them, nor do I
> > bitch about such-and-such being written with them (well, not publicly,
> > anyway). Many's the time I've wanted to modify a program written in a
> > language I didn't/don't know, and learned enough of it to re-write it in
> > a language I do know, just to do the changes I wanted.
>
> Ack! That makes believe the comments about people not wanting to learn
> new languages. I would do it the other way around, and learn enough of
> the language it's written in to make the changes I wanted.
Ordinarily, I'd agree, but sometimes the changes were just to get things
to work! With time constraints in place, it was easier and faster to
learn the language enough to get a grasp of the code's functionality and
re-write it than to LEARN THE LANGUAGE and find the brokenness.
In other cases, the boss wanted it in another language. And in some cases,
_I_ wanted it in another language.
> In fact, I
> think that's a good way to learn a language, providing you have a
> stylisticly good example to start with.
And who'd judge that?
> <mike
Dave
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