[Beowulf] C vs C++ challenge

[Jim Lux]

At 08:13 AM 2/24/2004 -0500, Matt Valerio wrote:
>Hello,
>
>I'm an avid C++ programmer myself, and C++ is definitely my choice of the 2
>languages.
>
>That being said, I think it would be interesting to see what the creator of
>both C and C++ has said about the two.  I ran across this interview with
>Bjorn Stroustrup at
>http://www.phy.duke.edu/brahma/Resources/c++_interview/c++_interview.html.
>
>Like anything on the internet, it should be taken with a grain of salt.  Can
>anyone vouch for its validity, or is it a hoax to get us to all hate C++ and
>stick with C?
>
>-Matt

That's a classic hoax interview (and I think identified as such by RGB), 
and remarkably funny.  Almost as good as Dijkstra's apocryphal comment that 
more brains have been ruined by BASIC than ....




James Lux, P.E.
Spacecraft Telecommunications Section
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Mail Stop 161-213
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