From: Rick DeNatale Date: 2007-11-14T21:19:11+09:00 Subject: Re: Why are so many people confused about "Enterprise" software? On Nov 14, 2007 4:00 AM, Robert Klemme wrote: > 2007/11/14, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky : > > Well ... either that or sell out and cry as your elegant Ruby solution > > gets rewritten in C++ or Java. :) > > > > Just kidding ... nobody can actually *write* C++ code! > > Oh, and I thought the issue was nobody can actually *read* C++ code - > apart from a compiler of course. :-) No it works both ways. Sometime in the 80s I just happened to be visiting the Apple booth at OOPSLA, when Bjarne Stroustrup wandered by. Apple had just released their first C++ compiler for the Macintosh Programmers Workshop, starting their move from Object Pascal to C++. The booth guys motioned Bjarne over to the stand where they were featuring the C++ tools, and Bjarne typed in a short "hello worldish" program. It only took him about four or five tries before he got it to compile. And it wasn't because the compiler was buggy. -- Rick DeNatale My blog on Ruby http://talklikeaduck.denhaven2.com/