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: fac41,b87849933931bc93 X-Google-Attributes: gidfac41,public X-Google-Thread: 109fba,724ec2348205c52c X-Google-Attributes: gid109fba,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: Kohler Markus Subject: Re: OO, C++, and something much better! Date: 1997/06/30 Message-ID: <33B7B950.9B5CB25F@betze.bbn.hp.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 254213181 References: <32ED02EE.22E2@netright.com> <32ED2448.685A@parcplace.com> <32EE20A3.755D@netright.com> <5cm364$dc2@topdog.cs.umbc.edu> <5cr068$gpa@uni.library.ucla.edu> <33B43B2F.5D9F@corp.mot.com> <33B63AC1.23A6@ix.netcom.com> X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Organization: Hewlett-Packard Co. Newsgroups: comp.object,comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.smalltalk,comp.lang.eiffel Date: 1997-06-30T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: Robert Dewar wrote: > > David says > > < > > Transframe does better on this issue. It requires fewer casts than any > > other languages. > >> > > Since many other languages have no notion of a "cast" or anything similar, > this seems an unlikely claim. David probably wanted to say "fewer casts than any static typed OOP language". Markus -- +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Markus Kohler Hewlett-Packard GmbH | | Software Engineer Network & System Management Division| | IT/E Response Team | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+