From: Terry Devine <tdevine@mitre.org>
To: tdevine@mitre.org
Subject: Re: Standardized OO Language
Date: 1998/02/17
Date: 1998-02-17T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <34E9C429.3988@mitre.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 34E37336.379297D1@cl.cam.ac.uk
Markus Kuhn wrote:
>
> 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/>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~1998-02-17 0:00 UTC|newest]
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 ` 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 ` Mark Bennison
1998-02-12 0:00 ` Standardized " Markus Kuhn
1998-02-13 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1998-02-13 0:00 ` Stephen Leake
1998-02-17 0:00 ` Terry Devine [this message]
1998-02-12 0:00 ` Standadised " Jon S Anthony
1998-02-13 0:00 ` Kenneth W. Sodemann
1998-02-13 0:00 ` William Clodius
1998-02-13 0:00 ` Howard W. LUDWIG
1998-02-13 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
1998-02-15 0:00 ` Dennis Reimer
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