Slighty OT: Dead Horse Wisdom

[Hasan Aljudy]

ROFL!!
I cracked up, specially on #8

C++ is a dead horse. D is a powerful young horse!
People riding C++ should get off of it and start riding D.

#11 is so true to C++

Bruno Medeiros wrote:
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> The tribal wisdom of the Dakota Indians, passed on from generation to
> generation, says: "When you discover that you are riding a dead horse, 
> the best strategy is to dismount."
> 
> However, in government, education, and in corporate America, more 
> advanced strategies are often employed, such as:
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> 1. Buying a stronger whip.
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> 2. Changing riders.
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> 3. Appointing a committee to study the horse.
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> 4. Arranging to visit other countries to see how other cultures ride 
> dead horses.
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> 5. Lowering the standards so that dead horses can be included.
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> 6. Reclassifying the dead horse as living-impaired.
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> 7. Hiring outside contractors to ride the dead horse.
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> 8. Harnessing several dead horses together to increase speed.
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> 9. Providing additional funding and/or training to increase dead horse's 
> performance.
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> 10. Doing a productivity study to see if lighter riders would improve 
> the dead horse's performance.
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> 11. Declaring that as the dead horse does not have to be fed, costs 
> less, has lower overhead and therefore contributes substantially more to 
> the bottom line of the economy than do other horses.
> 
> 12. Rewriting the expected performance requirements for all horses.
> 
> And of course....
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> 13. Promoting the dead horse to a supervisory position.
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> Any similarity with computer technologies or certain programming 
> languages is purely coincidental ^^
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