Whipping with a cat-o'-nine tails is too mild a punishment. Whoever approved the cover graphic for the September BYTE should be flogged with a frayed SCSI cable. A circle with a diagonal line from upper right to lower left is a ``Ghost Busters'' advertising joke. A circle with a diagonal line from upper left to lower right is the real thing. Come on you guys, stop making the editors of my favorite magazine look like a bunch of reversed DIPs.
Dick Heath
Rio Nido, CA
Flexible C++
Matthew Wilson
My approach to software engineering is far more pragmatic than it
is
theoretical--and no language better exemplifies this than C++.
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