Paul D. Anderson Wrote:
> I've had a painful couple of days myself.
>
> I've been coding in Java for the last several years, but am now working on a
> project in C++. It had been a while (8 years?) since I did any serious C++
> work and I didn't do much then. So I bought a copy of "C++ for Java
> Programmers" and got stuck in. Mostly what I do is write Java code in my head
> and transmogrify it into C++, relying heavily on frequent compilation to let
> me know when I've gone off the rails.
>
> My lead comes by my desk the other day and (this could only happen in a
> large, bureaucratic, schizophrenic corporation...) and he tells me that, in
> spite of the fact that we are using a C++ development environment, we are not
> going to actually USE C++, so everything needs to be rewritten in C. ??!!
>
> He described this as a "disconnect".
>
> Welcome to 1999.
>
> Paul
>
Sympathy waves, sympathy waves! I have worked for organizations where you'd get
a nasty email from management if you made a comment like that on a public
newsgroup. Watch your step, Big Brother is watching you ;=)
