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From: shang@corp.mot.com (David L. Shang)
Subject: Re: What is wrong with OO ?
Date: 1997/01/02
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Date: 1997-01-02T00:00:00+00:00
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In article <32CAF83E.323A@acm.org> Ian Joyner <i.joyner@acm.org> writes:

> 1) C++ has added nothing new that has not been pioneered elsewhere.
> (Classes from Simula, multiple inheritance, genericty were all
> around before C++ adopted them)
> 

There is nothing wrong to borrow good things from others. But it is
wrong to borrow things good to others but bad to self.

> 2) Most things that are different in C++ to other languages are to
> patch up the earlier deficiencies of C and C++. For example
> type casts, etc.

When things are added, patches must be made also. The things added
is not good to self.

A language should not continue to add things with patches.

David Shang