Re: [Fish-users] Fish-users Digest, Vol 65, Issue 6

[Peter F. <in...@wh...>]

On 01/06/2012 22:54, Axel Liljencrantz wrote:
> I am dealing with a somewhat large and C++ code base at work right 
> now, written by extremely clever people who wanted to try out some 
> extremely clever ideas. Exceedingly fed up with C++ right now; a 
> conversation about the merits of C++ would not be constructive, so 
> lets not have one.
>
'clever' code always makes me of the Brian Kernighan quote:

    "Everyone knows that debugging is twice as hard as writing a program
    in the first place. So if you're as clever as you can be when you
    write it, how will you ever debug it?"

      * "The Elements of Programming Style", 2nd edition, chapter 2