From: Rick DeNatale <rick.denatale@...>
Date: 2006-10-03T05:45:48+09:00
Subject: Re: "Succinctness is Power", by Paul Graham

On 10/1/06, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky <znmeb@cesmail.net> wrote:
> David Vallner wrote:
> > M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote:
> >> The people who designed C++ and Perl 6 are the ones who are bonkers, not
> >> those who would parse them with C. :)
> >>
> >
> > Hey, but if you ever need a protected abstract virtual base pure virtual
> > private destructor, you'll be thankful to the former ones ;P
> >
> > David Vallner
> >
> C++ *is* a destructor.

Some years ago at OOPSLA, I was hanging out in the hotel lobby, when I
saw my old buddy Kent Beck talking with a group of folks, some I or
whom knew and others I didn't.

I walked up to say hi, just as someone in the group said that he'd
heard a great joke:

Q: "Why doesn't C++ have garbage collection?"
A; "Because there would be nothing left."

To which Kent said.  "Rick invented that joke!, at OOPSLA last year."
Which, indeed I had.

It was amazing to me that the joke took exactly one year to come full circle.


-- 
Rick DeNatale