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=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 109fba,b87849933931bc93 X-Google-Attributes: gid109fba,public X-Google-Thread: fac41,b87849933931bc93 X-Google-Attributes: gidfac41,public X-Google-Thread: f43e6,b87849933931bc93 X-Google-Attributes: gidf43e6,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,b87849933931bc93 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 114809,b87849933931bc93 X-Google-Attributes: gid114809,public X-Google-Thread: 1108a1,b87849933931bc93 X-Google-Attributes: gid1108a1,public From: Chris Brand Subject: Re: OO, C++, and something much better! Date: 1997/01/06 Message-ID: <32D1310C.60E0@ccgate.hac.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 208090342 references: <32CCE4ED.6A21@online.no> <5ajo99$khu@panix.com> <32ce7009.280817694@news.zip.com.au> content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii organization: Hughes Canada Systems Division mime-version: 1.0 newsgroups: comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.smalltalk,comp.lang.eiffel,comp.lang.ada,comp.object,comp.software-eng x-mailer: Mozilla 3.01 (X11; I; SunOS 5.5 sun4c) Date: 1997-01-06T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: John (Max) Skaller wrote: > [cut] > > Is C++ innovative? Too right it is. > It has the most powerful support for genericity available > in any widely used commercial language. (Sorry, Ada doesn't count, > Eiffel is borderline, current Java is a backward step. If there > is any competition it is from Smalltalk [which uses > dynamism instead]). > [cut] Great argument. To paraphrase: "Is C++ innovative? Yes. Its got something other languages had first but it's more widely used." Perhaps I've got the wrong definition of innovative... -- Chris Stating my own opinions, not those of my company.