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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