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Well ... It started as "C with classes" in 79, and Turbo C++ was out in 1990. But then came Visual C++ in 93, and pretty much since then if you reached for a C++ project, you reached for a MS product (Embedded excepted, I had some success with Embedded C++ on ARM processors at the beginning of the century)
OK, Turbo C is still out there, but the last release was 12 years ago - name me a mainstream C++ IDE that doesn't come with the MS logo?
Sent from my Amstrad PC 1640
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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 I thought this thread was supposed to be humorous. Apparently not...
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C++ is not a frivolous language! It's the "Uncle in accounting" of programming languages.
(C# can crack a joke from time to time, and VB is the Special Needs cousin you hope can't make it to the party)
Sent from my Amstrad PC 1640
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Hey, I thought that was a joke 8)
MS may have implemented a few versions of C++, but had nothing to do with the original definition of the language (other than to implement slightly non-compliant versions) and still only have an input to the language design (rather than controlling it).
Just shows how blinkered an idea one gets of the dev ecosystem if one has never stepped outside the MS universe I suppose.
(I started using C++ from its very earliest days, developed for Windows and Linux with it for over 20 years, and never once did I do that with a Microsoft product.)
HA HA HA HA <bonk>
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It took me nearly three minutes just to get the shrink-wrap off the manual!
This also tells you how long ago it was!
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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Never fix one bug when refactoring the entire module could bag you 50 more bugs.
Corollary: Always try and get your manager to bonus you on the number of bugs you fix.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Chris Maunder wrote: Always try and get your manager to bonus you on the number of bugs you fix.
You are such a good employer. CP devs, ask for bonus. We promise we will flood the sugs and bugs forum.
"It is easy to decipher extraterrestrial signals after deciphering Javascript and VB6 themselves.", ISanti[ ^]
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Oh no! Do we really need the whole bible?
Quote: "What are we going to do?"
"What a Ferengi always does in a situation this grave."
"Panic?"
"No, you idiot! He goes to the Rules of Acquisition. Unabridged and fully annotated with all 47 commentaries, all 900 major and minor judgments, all 10,000 considered opinions. There's a rule for every conceivable situation."
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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Software management 5th amendment: "it all depends".
If you can keep your head while those about you are losing theirs, perhaps you don't understand the situation.
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Productivity is inversely proportional to the amount of time spent in meetings.
The most difficult bugs to find are always in the "simplest" code.
The longer it takes to explain your code the more likely it is that you don't understand it.
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We are all Dilbert
I'm pretty sure I would not like to live in a world in which I would never be offended.
I am absolutely certain I don't want to live in a world in which you would never be offended.
Freedom doesn't mean the absence of things you don't like.
Dave
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He who does the least gets paid the most.
And from despair.com...
If you're not part of the solution, there's good money to be made in prolonging the problem.
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Oh, this should be an easy project. That is until you find out all of the requirements.
Common sense is admitting there is cause and effect and that you can exert some control over what you understand.
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And you will never know all the requirements.
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Requirements are top secrete, no one is allowed to truly know them all. Even the requester isn't allowed to know what they seek.
Common sense is admitting there is cause and effect and that you can exert some control over what you understand.
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I don't know why you're required to secrete out of your top....
#SupportHeForShe
Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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LOL, some users and members of management... 
Common sense is admitting there is cause and effect and that you can exert some control over what you understand.
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Codeproject Rules of Software Development?
Klingon rules Software Development.
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Yep, no.17 is my favourite. 
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Mine are Nos. 13, 11, and 3. In that order!
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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If you announce to the universe that you are currently swamped with working on the next release, the universe (or a client) will find an annoying bug in the current release for you to fix that has been escalated to upper management and must be fixed NOW!
Yeah, this one happened to me yesterday.
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Happens to me every week.
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Once you have added your client's most recent "feature" requested, he (or she) will invariably say, "Well if you can do that..".
The more clueless your client is about programming the more he thinks he (or she) knows, and tries to help you out.
The older I get the less sure I am about anything...
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