From: baker@csl.dl.nec.com (Larry Baker)
Subject: Re: OOP and large systems.
Date: 6 Jun 91 14:00:29 GMT [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1991Jun6.140029.27930@csl.dl.nec.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 1991Jun5.210123.28235@jpl-devvax.jpl.nasa.gov
larryc@puente.jpl.nasa.gov (Larry Carroll) writes:
|> The most impressive aspect of C++, as reported by a group of programmers
|> (most of them Fortran & C users) here who were forced to learn & use it for a
|> task last year, was inheritance. With careful attention to design, they
|> were able to re-use a lot of their own code, & re-design it quickly when
|> needed.
We use C++, and there are several people here (myself included) with Ada
backgrounds, who would add to the above observation: Dynamic Binding has,
for us, been a very significant added benefit. The combination of DB and
Inheritance is a very, very powerful mechanism.
--
Larry Baker
NEC America C&C Software Laboratories, Irving (near Dallas), TX
baker@csl.dl.nec.com cs.utexas.edu!necssd!baker
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