[Seth-Trips] News and humor

[Seth David Schoen]

Chris Palmer writes:

> In an OOP-related anecdote, Tom Duff of Pixar (he of Duff's Device fame)
> recently told me that C++ STL absolutely does not perform at the level
> he requires (he helps write the code that renders Pixar's movies). He
> said it was "primarily related to memory management issues" and
> emphatically denied that it was merely a compiler problem.

I thught it was cool to meet Tom Duff.

http://www.lysator.liu.se/c/duffs-device.html
http://www.jargon.net/jargonfile/d/Duffsdevice.html

He has also won an Academy Award (or two?), yet we have all heard of
him because of a C programming thing he discovered in 1983...

-- 
Seth David Schoen <schoen at loyalty.org> | Very frankly, I am opposed to people
     http://www.loyalty.org/~schoen/   | being programmed by others.
     http://vitanuova.loyalty.org/     |     -- Fred Rogers (1928-2003),
                                       |        464 U.S. 417, 445 (1984)