I've had a painful couple of days myself.

I've been coding in Java for the last several years, but am now working on a project in C++. It had been a while (8 years?) since I did any serious C++ work and I didn't do much then. So I bought a copy of "C++ for Java Programmers" and got stuck in. Mostly what I do is write Java code in my head and transmogrify it into C++, relying heavily on frequent compilation to let me know when I've gone off the rails.

My lead comes by my desk the other day and (this could only happen in a large, bureaucratic, schizophrenic corporation...) and he tells me that, in spite of the fact that we are using a C++ development environment, we are not going to actually USE C++, so everything needs to be rewritten in C.  ??!!

He described this as a "disconnect".

Welcome to 1999.

Paul


Steven Schveighoffer Wrote:

> I can't wait for D to take over the world, so I no longer have to write in this horrid language ;)
> 
> -Steve

Paul D. Anderson Wrote:

> I've had a painful couple of days myself.
> 
> I've been coding in Java for the last several years, but am now working on a project in C++. It had been a while (8 years?) since I did any serious C++ work and I didn't do much then. So I bought a copy of "C++ for Java Programmers" and got stuck in. Mostly what I do is write Java code in my head and transmogrify it into C++, relying heavily on frequent compilation to let me know when I've gone off the rails.
> 
> My lead comes by my desk the other day and (this could only happen in a large, bureaucratic, schizophrenic corporation...) and he tells me that, in spite of the fact that we are using a C++ development environment, we are not going to actually USE C++, so everything needs to be rewritten in C.  ??!!
> 
> He described this as a "disconnect".
> 
> Welcome to 1999.
> 
> Paul
> 
Sympathy waves, sympathy waves! I have worked for organizations where you'd get a nasty email from management if you made a comment like that on a public newsgroup. Watch your step, Big Brother is watching you ;=)