Two quotes about C++

By Charles Miller on 29 November 2002

I was looking for something I wrote a while back about C++, and came across these two quotes in my blog archives:

“C++ is an octopus made by nailing extra legs onto a dog.” —unknown

“I quickly found out that C++ programmers are the smartest programmers in the world, as each one I met would quickly point out to me.” —Don Box

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Cross-cutting concerns

28 November 2002

ime after time on projects, though, a set of requirements end up written on cards that do not fit. They are the round peg to the User Story's square hole. These requirements are: security, usability, performance, and logging (especially audit logs). These are generally shoved in the catch-all category of Non-Functional Requirements.

Slashbots...

29 November 2002

When looking through the comments on Slashdot stories like this, and seeing the kind of ignorant garbage that gets moderated up, it really helps to keep repeating to myself: “They're only kids. They've probably never developed anything longer than a 100 line Perl-script in their lives.” But it's so disheartening to see so much ignorance concentrated in such a small place, labeled as the “voice of nerd culture”.