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  Re: Java vs C++ Lew <noone@lewscanon.com> - 2011-02-06 14:21 -0500
    Re: Java vs C++ "Mike Schilling" <mscottschilling@hotmail.com> - 2011-02-06 12:07 -0800

#25506 — Re: Java vs C++

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.

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Lew
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"Lew" <noone@lewscanon.com> wrote in message 
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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.

That too. 

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