Newsgroups:	comp.lang.c++,comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject:	Re: Making C++ little easier to beginners...
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From:	rfischer AT bolt DOT sonic DOT net (Ray Fischer)
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Traveler <traveler AT netti DOT fi> wrote:
>Let me make few things clear:
> 
>1)    I apologize the trouble that my typo "if(x == 10 && x == 10)" has caused (What
>we learn from this ? Never, ever send a message when you are tired ).

Were you tired when you wrote this?

>2)    Lot of criticism was that my little helper was not "correct" C/C++.

No, that it is _bad_ C++.

>        Is it so that the so called "O mighty" standard of C++ prevents me to write
>this kind of code ?
>        I dont thinks so...

Go right ahead.  Just don't get expect to get a job writing
that kind of code.

>        So what !!!!????
>        If you like the things that I sometimes offer then use it, if not then dont
>use it ! It´s as easy as that !
>        What I do is to offer ALTERNATIVES.

So what?  Any halfwit can play with macros.  Notice that nobody
does so.

>3)    Ray Fischer, you writed:
>    "Where I work we're are complete uninterested in making C++ easier
>    for beginners.  We don't hire beginners.  Your plan is as daft as
>    proposing that knives be dulled to protect beginners."
> 
>    Well, that was a very encouraging !

It wasn't meant to be.

>    Frankly, I don't care where you work or what kind of projects you currently do.

Apparently you don't care about employment either.

>You also wrote:
>"Well guess what:  "Boolean algebra" books don't count.  Not in the slightest.
>What does count is the C++ standard.  When you learn something about C++ and
>programming you'll realize as much yourself."
>
>Take a look at the following part and think again...also read the part 2 again

No.  It's still pointless crap.

-- 
Ray Fischer         When you look long into an abyss, the abyss also looks 
rfischer AT sonic DOT net  into you  --  Nietzsche

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