[Coco] Somewhat OT: The life of a systems programmer

[billg999 at cs.uofs.edu]

> On 11/16/2013 09:02 AM, Steven Hirsch wrote:
>
>> I got a chuckle out of that.  It's a bit reminiscent of the Unix Haters
>> Handbook by Jamie Zawinski.  That being said, C++ is really the only
>> answer for a lot of scientific and engineering problems.
>
> Sorry, Steve, I have to disagree.  Those problems are almost
> invariably better suited to being dealt with by C, or even FORTRAN.
> The range of problems where OOP features are necessary, or even useful
> is very very small.

The last time I tried to tell someone that they started grabbing for the
tar buckets, feathers and the rail!!

bill