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With and without Fin[n]ish

Ms. Stob shamlessly pilfers more verse and turns it to her own ends.

Verity Stob

Back in the day, Dr. Dobb's Journal ran a humorous column written by a programmer in the United Kingdom under the pseudonym Verity Stob. In this installment from 2002, Verity took aim at critics of Microsoft's .NET and its treatment of C++.

Down the Pole

Mar02: The New Adventures of Verity Stob

I have finished all the programming. Like a Good Girl, I have put the source into version control. And I have even — do stop smirking or it will stick — done some testing. There is nowhere else to go now but down into Documentation Dell, Dakota. I'll get started in a moment or two, as soon as I can think what to put. Any second now.

Caught in .NET

Microsoft has dared to add some proprietary extensions to Visual C++ to make it work with the Windows .NET system. At a recent UK C++ conference, Bjarne Stroustrup himself publicly nailed, as it were, the 14 new keywords to the door of Microsoft's church.

You may start

- .NET

Stob Raider

'My life is just as glamorous as Lara Croft's,' claims Verity Stob, wildly. 'I should think Eidos could make a very exciting game out of it.' - Web Development

Cave Canem

The Editor commissioned Ms Stob to write a piece about AIBO, Sony's new robot dog. A strange choice: unlike the other journalists assigned this task, Verity Stob is not a 'doggy' person. - Design

We Don't Guarantee That The Latest Windows API Feature Will Make You Sexy But There Again We Can't Imagine Why It Shouldn't

Verity Stob has long been fascinated by the house style of MSDN Magazine (formerly MSJ). She was, therefore, very excited, when recently poking around an insecure Microsoft FTP server in search of sensitive customer information, to stumble across the wizard-generated primary template from which all MSDN articles are produced.

From Mordor to Damascus

Verity Stob is granted a revelation.

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