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Article #2593Re: Report on defect in M2 vs C (Was Modula-2, Modula-3, C or C++)
From: James Kanze US/ESC 60/3/141 #407...
Date: Mon, 09 Oct 1995 12:03
Date: Mon, 09 Oct 1995 12:03
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In article <DG1yzI.8Ln@mv.mv.com> Sam Kendall <kendall> writes:
|> So C/C++ developers wear a life jacket in the harbor and throw
|> it away on the open sea.
|> --Sam Kendall
|> P.S. The life jacket metaphor isn't mine. Anyone remember who said it?
Well, I said it once:-).
According to Steve Clamage, the original comment was about keeping a
fire extenguisher in your car, but removing it when you went out on
the road, and was by C. A. R. Hoare.
Lest any of the newbies out there not recognize the name, and think
that it is just one of those quality idiots who don't understand
performance issues: C. A. R. Hoare is the inventor of the quick sort,
which did a lot more to improve sorting performance than removing
bounds checking ever will.
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James Kanze Tel.: (+33) 88 14 49 00 email: kanze@gabi-soft.fr
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