From: Markus Kuhn <Markus.Kuhn@cl.cam.ac.uk>
Subject: Re: Standardized OO Language
Date: 1998/02/12
Date: 1998-02-12T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <34E37336.379297D1@cl.cam.ac.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 34E2D3D9.B2F1F398@adelaide.on.net
Matthew Daniel wrote:
> After Having a "discussion" with one of the engineers at work, he is an
> Ada "hater" and I am the Ada "lover", about standadised OO languages, I
> said Ada95 was the only one, well at least 6 months ago, he said C++ has
> an ANSI standard and has for a couple of years.
>
> I was just wondering if I was correct or totally wrong.
You were correct. Today, there exists neither an ISO nor an ANSI
standard for C++. Ada95 has been standardized as ISO/IEC 8652:1995
for many years now.
Check the ISO database on <http://www.iso.ch/cate/cat.html> and the
ANSI database on <http://www.ansi.org/catalog/search.html> yourself!
All there exists is some advanced draft of a C++ standard.
Anyway, C++ has pointer arithmetic, therefore no object protections,
and therefore I think it is not unfair to classify C++ more as
a luxurious OO-Assembler than as a high-level programming language.
If you look for a practical high-level OO programming language,
check out either Ada95 or Java. Both are pretty decent state-of-the
art Algol successors.
Markus
--
Markus G. Kuhn, Security Group, Computer Lab, Cambridge University, UK
email: mkuhn at acm.org, home page: <http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/>
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Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1998-02-12 0:00 Standadised OO Language Matthew Daniel
1998-02-12 0:00 ` Mark Bennison
1998-02-12 0:00 ` Markus Kuhn [this message]
1998-02-13 0:00 ` Standardized " Stephen Leake
1998-02-13 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1998-02-17 0:00 ` Terry Devine
1998-02-12 0:00 ` Standadised " Kenneth W. Sodemann
1998-02-12 0:00 ` David Weller
1998-02-12 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
1998-02-12 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1998-02-12 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1998-02-13 0:00 ` Kenneth W. Sodemann
1998-02-13 0:00 ` Howard W. LUDWIG
1998-02-13 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
1998-02-13 0:00 ` William Clodius
1998-02-15 0:00 ` Dennis Reimer
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