About C++ Programmers Anonymous

C++ Programmers Anonymous is a fellowship of people who support each other in the belief that they can recover from using an impossible language and writing overly complex unbearable code. The only requirement for membership is a desire to stop. There are no dues or fees for C.P.P.P.A.. membership; we are self-supporting through our own contributions.

C.P.P.P.A..'s Twelve Steps

Part of the recovery program that C.P.P.P.A.. suggests is set forth in the Twelve Steps listed here. The Steps are a suggested program of recovery. It is up to the individual to decide when and how the Steps, will be used.

THE TWELVE STEPS

Step 1: We admitted it was impossible to learn all of C++ - that the maintenance and the complexity had become unmanageable.

Step 2: We came to believe that a new language greater than C++ could restore us to sanity.

Step 3: We made a decision to turn our future projects over to the care of Python as we understood Python.

Step 4: We made a searching and fearless inventory of why we ever used C++ in the first place.

Step 5: We admitted to ourselves and to another human being the exact nature of why C++ programming is wrong.

Step 6: We were entirely ready to have Python remove C++ programming's defects of character.

Step 7: We humbly used Python to remove C++ programming's shortcomings.

Step 8: We made a list of all the customers our C++ code had confused and became willing to make amends to them all.

Step 9: We made direct amends to such customers wherever possible, except when to do so would involve writing more C++ code.

Step 10: We continued to use Python and when we accidentally returned to C++, promptly admitted it.

Step 11: Sought cool projects in Python, as we understood Python, praying only for the source code to carry them out.

Step 12: Having had an awakening as a result of these Steps, we tried to carry this message to other C++ programmers, and to program in Python in all our projects.

Christian Seberino, Ph.D.
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