Simen Kjaeraas Wrote: > On Fri, 07 Oct 2011 17:11:45 +0200, Nick Sabalausky <[email protected]> wrote: > > > "Trass3r" <[email protected]> wrote in message > > news:op.v2ze74ma3ncmek@enigma... > >>> Now D is also quite cool, I would just like for the language compilers > >>> to be a bit more stable. > >> > >> They have been vastly improving, really. > >> > >>> Currently I do have more sucess proposing C++11 based solutions as Go > >>> or > >>> D based ones, on the type of corporate environment I work in. > >> > >> That's not D's or Go's fault. Most guys especially in bigger > >> corporations > >> are plain ignorant and wear blinders. > >> Strangely that even applies to universities. > > > > Not real surprising. Universities can be *enormously* ignorant and > > conceited. (Community colleges too...my god, some of the flaming egos and > > politics around there are mind-boggling, especially considering it's > > *just* > > a CC...) > > > >> Hell, they didn't even know about clang even though they were > >> progressive > >> enough to use C++0x. > > > > I once had a university professor who openly admitted C was the only > > language he knew - and yet he didn't even understand how C's > > null-terminated > > strings work. So he didn't really even know that one language. > > I helped a friend with some assignments from a professor who wrote > absolutely unreadable code, and who taught students to use int[101] > to allocate 100 ints, because he couldn't grasp indexing from 0 to > 99. > > I also really liked the assignment where we were told of a mythical > processor that would multiply 2 NxN matrices in O(N^4) time. > > -- > Simen
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