Assigning reference to variables..

[WW]

Re: Assigning reference to variables..

Howard wrote:[color=blue]
> "Attila Feher" <attila.feher@l mf.ericsson.se> wrote in message
> news:blh8nf$505 $1@newstree.wis e.edt.ericsson. se...[color=green]
>> Gary Labowitz wrote:[color=darkred]
>>> The only thing worse than teaching C++ is working next to a guy
>>> programming it with void main( ) and arguing all the time.[/color]
>>
>> The human stupidity is the only endless resource on Earth.[/color]
>
> At least we can take heart in the fact that only about half the
> people on earth are of below average intelligence![/color]

IMO the stupidity I talk about and intelligence they measure has nothing to
do with each other. IQ does not measure quality or method of the solution
one gives to a problem. It only finds out if that problem was solved.
People using void main in an environment not decent enough to warn about it
have solved the problem. They might be shortsighted and not give a damn
about the information that void main is not legal. And that might even help
them while making an IQ test. They never get distracted by anything.
Morals or consequences are beyond them. Look at our late troll.

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WW aka Attila

[Kevin Goodsell]

Re: Assigning reference to variables..

Gary Labowitz wrote:
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> "Kevin Goodsell" <usenet1.spamfr ee.fusion@never box.com> wrote in message
> news:AcEeb.1135 7$NX3.7639@news read3.news.pas. earthlink.net.. .
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>>
>>That's not a very good way to learn C++. Frankly, most C++ teachers
>>don't know the language well enough to be teaching it (but they usually
>>believe they do). A good book is about the best way.[/color]
>
>
> Ahem. I teach C++ AND I know it well enough to be teaching it.[/color]
<snip>

Then I wasn't talking about you. ;)

Seriously, I think it's safe to say that most teachers' C++ lecture
notes are riddled with errors, and not a good way to learn the language.
Maybe I'm wrong (about C++ teachers in general), but I don't think I am,
based on how many C++ programmers I've come across who know a language
bearing some similarities to C++, but being fundamentally a completely
different language. These same programmers are often the ones who are
quite certain that C++ is what they say it is, and will hold onto this
belief even in the face of overwhelming evidence to the contrary.

-Kevin
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[WW]

Re: Assigning reference to variables..

Kevin Goodsell wrote:
[SNIP][color=blue]
> Seriously, I think it's safe to say that most teachers' C++ lecture
> notes are riddled with errors, and not a good way to learn the
> language. Maybe I'm wrong (about C++ teachers in general), but I
> don't think I am, based on how many C++ programmers I've come across
> who know a language bearing some similarities to C++, but being
> fundamentally a completely different language. These same programmers
> are often the ones who are quite certain that C++ is what they say it
> is, and will hold onto this belief even in the face of overwhelming
> evidence to the contrary.[/color]

In a Hungarian University they had the following name for a program:
cprog01.cpp. The program was supposed to be a C program. The first header
it loaded was conio.h. It was full of variable declarations in the middle
of compound statements. When I have made the students to point out all the
errors in the code the teacher started to rant and accused them to attack
him, because he was a refugee... The Brave New World...

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WW aka Attila