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=0.2 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,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: 109fba,b87849933931bc93 X-Google-Attributes: gid109fba,public X-Google-Thread: fac41,b87849933931bc93 X-Google-Attributes: gidfac41,public X-Google-Thread: 1108a1,b87849933931bc93 X-Google-Attributes: gid1108a1,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,b87849933931bc93 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 114809,b87849933931bc93 X-Google-Attributes: gid114809,public From: Eric Clayberg Subject: Re: OO, C++, and something much better! Date: 1997/01/24 Message-ID: <32E8E63C.3990@parcplace.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 211955900 references: <32E712B2.5060@parcplace.com> content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii organization: ParcPlace-Digitalk, Inc. mime-version: 1.0 reply-to: clayberg@parcplace.com newsgroups: comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.smalltalk,comp.lang.eiffel,comp.lang.ada,comp.object x-mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (Win95; U) Date: 1997-01-24T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: Don Harrison wrote: > Gee, Eric. It seems like you versus the whole static typing community. :( Hey, it looks like a couple of other Smalltalk developers are jumping into the fray as well. :-) > I don't want to argue about whether or not exceptions should be propagated > (as others are doing a good enough job of that). I just want to encourage > you not to use C++ as the basis for your comparison with Smalltalk. > > Some of your comments seem to assume that C++ is the sterotypical statically- > typed language. It isn't - it's merely the most popular. :( You would be > better off comparing Smalltalk with a statically-typed langauge with a > coherent type system such as Eiffel, Ada or Sather. You make a good point. I compare it to C++ as that is the language I have the most experience in. I know a bit about Eiffel (haven't used it, but am very impressed with what I've read about it), and very little about the other two (the last DOD project I did was in FORTRAN and I haven't run across other occassions where Ada was required). > Some of your antagonists come from those backgrounds and they would agree with > you that C++ is the pits. :) I'm glad we can agree on something at least! ;-) -Eric