Re: Things we do wrong

[Roger Mc Murtrie]

In this whole lengthy diatribe, nobody seems to mention the words  
"good programming practice";
perhaps it died with C++?  Programing standards are not usually the  
provence of "good programming practice", no more than  car technical  
manuals provide instruction on good driving practice.
The only attempt at "good programming practice" advice for C++ that I  
have ever found is Scott Meyers excellent book, "Effective C++,  
Second Edition, 50 Specific Ways To Improve Your Program And  
Designs". Perhaps there are others? Most "how to program in C++" seem  
to pay little attention to "good programming practice", with the  
result that the maintainability of C++ code is miserably poor.  Lack  
of "good programming practice" conventions is fertile ground for a  
hacker's paradise with the consequentle potential for highly  
unmaintable code.

Roger

On 29/08/2007, at 1:13 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Re: Things we do wrong