At the University I was told that C++, classes and OO programming is the way to do it! What a load of crap!
It's based on the faulty assumption that the programmer has a brain, and assumption is the mother of all ****ups.

In the end you get fat bloatware with a jungle of "weak and pointless" objects splattered on a virtual wall.

Guess who's the sorry SOB who gets to "fix" the mess. That's right...ME!

COM style OO programming is much better, COM has a filter to weed out braindead programmers (Granted, the filter's not perfect).

Any idiot can produce a C++ class library with "lots" of classes doing nothing (except passing the information on to some other class), however most idiots never get near COM.

Right now, World War III would be nice, Nuclear weapons kills braindead programmers and wipes out there codebase. Some good programmers would offcourse be killed in the war, but look at it from the brightside, for every good programmer killed you get at least 1000 braindead lamers fried.

So before I get any deeper into COM, which appears to be great, I would like to know if the braindead legions are entering the COM world.