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The Assembly Language of Object-Oriented Programming 205 A low-level language demands attention to myriad details, most of which ...

206 C++ Your code is more likely to run at maximum efficiency on many dif- ferent platforms in many different configurations. ...

The Assembly Language of Object-Oriented Programming 207 Hard to Learn and Built to Stay That Way C++ shares one more important ...

208 C++ Syntax Syrup of Ipecac Syntactic sugar causes cancer of the semi-colon. —Alan Perlis Practically every kind of syntax er ...

Syntax Syrup of Ipecac 209 Date: Sun, 21 May 89 18:02:14 PDT From: tiemann (Michael Tiemann) To: [email protected] Cc: UNIX-HATER ...

210 C++ Michael Worst of all, the biggest problem with C++, for those who use it on a daily basis, is that even with a restricte ...

Abstract What? 211 class. In most cases, changing a class forces a recompile of all code that could possibly reference it. This ...

212 C++ C weenies will tell you that one of the best features of C is the pre- processor. Actually, it is probably the worst. Ma ...

C++ Is to C as Lung Cancer Is to Lung 213 But you can’t tell where function boundaries are without parsing the program, and you ...

214 C++ Sadly, though, it’s probably in the best interest of every computer scientist and serious programmer to learn C++. It’s ...

The Evolution of a Programmer 215 The Evolution of a Programmer [We’d love to assign credit for this, but it’s been whizzing aro ...

216 C++ Seasoned pro #include <stream.h> const int MAXLEN = 80; class outstring; class outstring { private: int size; char ...

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Part 3: Sysadmin’s Nightmare ...

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11 System Administration Unix’s Hidden Cost If the automobile had followed the same development as the com- puter, a Rolls-Royce ...

222 System Administration other operating systems, Unix makes these tasks more difficult and expen- sive than other operating sy ...

Keeping Unix Running and Tuned 223 Paying someone $40,000 a year to maintain 20 machines translates into $2000 per machine-year. ...

224 System Administration far from their maternal sysadmin, who frequently dials up the system from home in the evening to burp ...