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From: Hyman Rosen <hyman.rosen@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: What's wrong with C++?
Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2011 13:12:00 -0800 (PST)
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On Wednesday, February 16, 2011 3:49:25 PM UTC-5, Nasser M. Abbasi wrote:
> The following below is probably one of the major problems
> with C/C++ environment?
>=20
> http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Ada_Programming/Packages
>=20
> "Ada uses separate compilation (like Modula-2, Java and C#),
> and not independent compilation (as C/C++ does), in which the
> various parts are compiled with no knowledge of the other
> compilation units with which they will be combined."

It's not even clear what this means, let alone why it's a problem.

It sounds like a complaint that C++ requires source inclusion (directly or =
via preprocessor #include directives) of type and object declarations into =
a compilation unit, while other languages have syntax for requesting a type=
 set (class, package, etc.) whose definition is then sought out by the comp=
iler in an implementation-dependent way. Personally, I don't find the long =
strings of 'import ...;' or 'with ...; use ...;' statements any more appeal=
ing than '#include "header.h"', but I suppose it's "purer".