From 395959738894149060 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 109fba,97482af7429a6a62 X-Google-Attributes: gid109fba,public X-Google-Thread: 1108a1,371d317eff97da58 X-Google-Attributes: gid1108a1,public X-Google-Thread: 10bca1,37f5012c390e46a6 X-Google-Attributes: gid10bca1,public X-Google-Thread: f78e5,d0101e78f246296b X-Google-Attributes: gidf78e5,public From: "Robert C. Martin" Subject: Re: C+@ Tails Date: 1995/06/05 Message-ID: <3qtsm5$320@news.wwa.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 103755606 references: <3qlikc$1ph@News1.mcs.com> <3qnhue$9f2@news.wwa.com> <3qnlo5$hfn@ornews.intel.com> <3qr7b9$h71@News1.mcs.com> content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii organization: Object Mentor Associates x-url: news:3qr7b9$h71@News1.mcs.com mime-version: 1.0 newsgroups: comp.object,comp.lang.c++,comp.std.c++,alt.culture.internet x-mailer: Mozilla 1.1N (Macintosh; I; 68K) jim.fleming@bytes.com (Jim Fleming) wrote: >Also, it would have been interesting to see what would have happened if >people had been given a "choice". As a friend of mine from the old Soviet >Union once told me, the "best" bread was the *only bread* and everyone >learned to "eat it" even though it was stale. What makes you think that people didn't have a choice. As early as 1989 I was put into the position of choosing between Objective_C and C++. Smalltalk has been around for awhile too. There were choices. Robert Martin | Design Consulting | Training courses offered: Object Mentor Assoc.| rmartin@rcmcon.com | Object Oriented Analysis 2080 Cranbrook Rd. | Tel: (708) 918-1004 | Object Oriented Design Green Oaks IL 60048 | Fax: (708) 918-1023 | C++