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Re: Java vs C++

From	Lew <noone@lewscanon.com>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.java.programmer
Subject	Re: Java vs C++
Date	2011-02-06 14:21 -0500
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Joshua Cranmer wrote
>>> When Bjarne Stroustrup gave a talk about C++0x to my university, one of the
>> things he said was it took him several tries to get the compiler vendors to
>> agree to support that minor lexical analysis. The only way he could convince
>> them to do it was to point out that all the major compilers basically had an
>> error message in that case which said "add a space, idiot", so all they had
>> to do was remove that error message.

Mike Schilling wrote:
> Like when you call a 9-digit number and the phone tells you that you need to
> dial a 1 first.

Or, in the US, the same thing for a 10-digit number.

-- 
Lew
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Re: Java vs C++ Lew <noone@lewscanon.com> - 2011-02-06 14:21 -0500
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