From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: * X-Spam-Status: No, score=1.6 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_05,INVALID_MSGID, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: fac41,b87849933931bc93 X-Google-Attributes: gidfac41,public X-Google-Thread: 109fba,b87849933931bc93 X-Google-Attributes: gid109fba,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,b87849933931bc93 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: f43e6,b87849933931bc93 X-Google-Attributes: gidf43e6,public X-Google-Thread: 1108a1,b87849933931bc93 X-Google-Attributes: gid1108a1,public X-Google-Thread: 114809,b87849933931bc93 X-Google-Attributes: gid114809,public From: Ian Joyner Subject: Re: What is wrong with OO ? Date: 1997/01/02 Message-ID: <32CAF83E.323A@acm.org>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 207183046 references: <5aa73v$p14@news3.digex.net> content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii organization: Unisys mime-version: 1.0 reply-to: i.joyner@acm.org newsgroups: comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.smalltalk,comp.lang.eiffel,comp.lang.ada,comp.object,comp.software-eng x-mailer: Mozilla 3.0Gold (WinNT; I) Date: 1997-01-02T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: Ell wrote: > > Ian Joyner (i.joyner@acm.org) wrote: > : And people can still drive model T Fords, and fly WWI planes. > > I find the key aspects of C++ to be within the parameters of the > _progressive_ OO paradigm and practice. In many ways C++ has led and > still leads in the expression and implementation of many significantly > useful OO concepts. 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) 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. This is hardly progressive or leading, and I don't think most C++ proponents would claim otherwise! ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Ian Joyner | "for when lenity and cruelty play | All opinions are Internet email: | for a kingdom, the gentler | personal and are i.joyner@acm.org | gamester is the soonest winner" | not Unisys | William Shakespeare Henry V | official comment ------------------------------------------------------------------------