"Mike Thompson" <none.by.e-mail> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >
> Then came Brad Cox's book. I read it. > > Then there was Glockenspiel's C++ for PC in about '87 or '88. I didn't PC in those days. I Unixed. > And, of course, cfont on unix from about, what, '85? That's about when I got it. I used to chat with B.S. on the phone, discussing and proposing features. Now he's rich and famous. Me? Would you believe rich? How about not destitute? > > Across the late '80s there was, of course, Eiffel which seemed a > remarkable piece of work for the time. And was backed by a terrific book > by Myer. > I puzzled long over whether to adopt C++ or Eiffel at the company I was with at the time. I went with C++, dispite the fact that cfront was slow as death and buggy. C++ made it bigtime and the company went public. Lucky guesses? Hah! Ah, nostalgia isn't what it used to be. Jive -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
