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=-0.8 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_DATE autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 109fba,ef0074ec236ba6e3 X-Google-Attributes: gid109fba,public X-Google-Thread: 1108a1,ef0074ec236ba6e3 X-Google-Attributes: gid1108a1,public X-Google-Thread: 108717,ef0074ec236ba6e3 X-Google-Attributes: gid108717,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,b19fa62fdce575f9 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 1014db,ef0074ec236ba6e3 X-Google-Attributes: gid1014db,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1994-11-21 11:12:53 PST Path: nntp.gmd.de!urmel.informatik.rwth-aachen.de!newsserver.rrzn.uni-hannover.de!aix11.hrz.uni-oldenburg.de!nordwest.germany.eu.net!pophh!Germany.EU.net!howland.reston.ans.net!pipex!lyra.csx.cam.ac.uk!warwick!not-for-mail From: csusb@csv.warwick.ac.uk (Jules) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c,comp.programming,comp.lang.c++,comp.object Subject: Re: Why don't large companies use Ada? Date: 21 Nov 1994 19:12:53 -0000 Organization: University of Warwick, Coventry, UK Message-ID: <3aqrfl$vo@tripe.csv.warwick.ac.uk> References: <3a6oc5$dkh@nntp1.u.washington.edu> Xref: nntp.gmd.de comp.lang.ada:16905 comp.lang.c:69407 comp.programming:13012 comp.lang.c++:79954 comp.object:17635 Date: 1994-11-21T19:12:53+00:00 List-Id: In article , emery@goldfinger.mitre.org (David Emery) writes > ..., the number of C programmers >> the number of C++ ... Do you mean "Shift the number of C programmers right by the number of C++ programmers" (an operation that wil almost certainly result in an overflow), or retrieve the number of C++ programmers from the stream "The number of C programmers" (a very sensible thing to do!). You should have used hungarian - I'd know exactly what you're talking about then ;-) >Thus a lot of alleged C++ is nothing more than bad C with 'OOP-sugar' >sprinkled over the code. > > dave Yes, it probably is, but is this a bad thing? It can't be worse than just plain old fashioned C. I mean, at least these people are STARTING to learn OOP, in some way or another, and in a few years it may just hit them what it's all about, if they stick at it. THEN they'll be writing REAL C++. -- /* Julian R Hall csusb@csv.warwick.ac.uk Flames should be redirected to /dev/null - I don't know what I'm saying myself so don't expect it to make sense all the time! */