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From: gil@snsys.com (Gil Jaysmith)
Newsgroups: scea.yaroze.freetalk
Subject: Re: C versus C++
Date: Mon, 12 Jan 1998 13:44:13 GMT
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Newsgroups - any newsgroups, but specifically gated ones - are not the
place for anything more personal than a little gentle ribbing and a
lot of intense technical argument. So please the both of you knock it
off.

Fact: amateurs should be allowed to post things which are wrong, and
should be prepared to learn from anyone. Fact: experts should be
allowed to opine that something is right, and should also be prepared
to learn from anyone. Fact: everyone is allowed to have an ego, and
ego shouldn't put people off the entire newsgroup, just (perhaps) the
postings of the person with the ego. If someone has useful information
to offer, you have to accept their ego as part of it. Ego without at
least some experience or some code to go with it is tiresome. But
everyone has a unique way of expressing what's in their mind, and we
all have to deal with that.

And, since everyone seems to violently agree on this, even in the
midst of bloody battle, perhaps we can peaceably return to the topic.

Looking at it from a strictly technical viewpoint, the question of
using C++ for Yaroze is dependent on someone porting the GNU C++
compiler, since I don't think Metrowerks provides C++ support, and I'm
sure Sony hasn't supplied cc1plus.exe. Has anyone done this yet, and
would I be popular if I did it? :=)

- Gil