Newbie look at Python and OO
Duncan Booth
duncan.booth at invalid.invalid
Fri May 11 11:09:03 EDT 2007
Grant Edwards <grante at visi.com> wrote:
> http://www.ariel.com.au/jokes/An_Interview_with_Bjarne_Stroustrup.html
>
> Maybe BS thought he was joking, but IMO, it's true.
>
> "Stroustrup: Remember the length of the average-sized 'C'
> project? About 6 months. Not nearly long enough for a guy
> with a wife and kids to earn enough to have a decent
> standard of living. Take the same project, design it in C++
> and what do you get? I'll tell you. One to two years."
>
I doubt very much that BS was involved at any point in writing it. You
forgot to quote the bit at the end:
[Note - for the humor-impaired, not a true story]
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