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    Interview with Bjarne Stroustrup "C++ a joke"

    Can you believe that Bjarne Stroustrup has admitted C++ was just a joke?

    A ploy to raise the salaries of programmers?

    http://artlung.com/smorgasborg/Inven...plusplus.shtml

    Tell me its not true!


    How many guys would know what to do with 'malloc', when they've used 'new' all these years and never bothered to check the return code. In fact, most C++ programmers throw away their return codes. What-ever happened to good ol' '-1'? At least you knew you had an error, without bogging the thing down in all that 'throw' 'catch' 'try' stuff." Bjarne Stroustrup
    "Man alone suffers so excruciatingly in the world that he was compelled to invent laughter."
    Friedrich Nietzsche

    "I spent a lot of my money on booze, birds and fast cars......the rest I squandered."
    George Best

    "If you are going through hell....keep going."
    Winston Churchill

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    i thought this was a hoax?
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    If thats true, damn!

    A good laugh though.
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    howdy,
    cute.... but anyone that has read or heard B.S. knows thats not his style of speech.

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    I don't like you very much. Please post a lot less.
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    No, I know you were joking. My point still stands.

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    Ah.............well











    it is April 1st
    "Man alone suffers so excruciatingly in the world that he was compelled to invent laughter."
    Friedrich Nietzsche

    "I spent a lot of my money on booze, birds and fast cars......the rest I squandered."
    George Best

    "If you are going through hell....keep going."
    Winston Churchill

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