5 Feb
2003
5 Feb
'03
1:58 p.m.
David O'Toole writes:
Did Bjarne say that before or after he invented templates? :-)
It's like saying to a cook: "you shouldn't use knives, they are
dangerous".
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FA
Probably.
I think it was Bjarne Stroustrup who said
something along the
lines of "Every use of a define is an instance of a programmer not
programming correctly." But I was just wondering if it was some
portability thing or something.
I think the basic idea is not to use preprocessor for programming...