How do hackers drive?

[kosmos]

>I recently started reading Eric Raymond's _The_Art_of_UNIX_Programming_ and
>it's gotten me taking another look at the way I am in general.

>Other programmers drive this way as well, correct?

You have an argument. Every carload of programmers I have ever been with 
(particularly C-programmers) can agree on where to go, but it's an issue 
on the specific route to get there. Usually the dominant programmer wins,
and the driver loses.

I am in professional training change, Journalism->Programming (a hard, 
long, math catchup), and if the objective is a 5-minute trip to the 
store, I find myself meandering aimlessly though the countryside, miles away, 
looking at the cows and trees.

I am of course _thinking_ about math and C++ projects, but that's probably
not a good sign.

>The revelation is that I'm starting to understand that many non-programmer
>_don't_ generally evaluate their car trips like this. 

Just out of curiosity, how do you think C compares to C++? Or what do you
think of OO-languages in general?

-- 
Allan Bowhill

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