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=2.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_50,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,97482af7429a6a62 X-Google-Attributes: gid109fba,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,97482af7429a6a62 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 10d15b,97482af7429a6a62 X-Google-Attributes: gid10d15b,public From: osinski@valis.cs.nyu.edu (Ed Osinski) Subject: Re: C++ not OOP? (Was: Language Efficiency Date: 1995/04/21 Message-ID: <3n94ns$5tj@cmcl2.NYU.EDU>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 101369179 distribution: world references: <3n3o9c$cud@atlantis.utmb.edu> <3n43p0$ehs@Starbase.NeoSoft.COM> <3n5oup$g2s@atlantis.utmb.edu> <3n5r92$95@Starbase.NeoSoft.COM> <3n60kc$gki@atlantis.utmb.edu> <1995Apr21.192110.7609@rcmcon.com> organization: New York University reply-to: osinski@cs.nyu.edu newsgroups: comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.cobol Date: 1995-04-21T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article <1995Apr21.192110.7609@rcmcon.com>, rmartin@rcmcon.com (Robert Martin) writes: |> Curtis Bass writes: |> |> >Listen, "pure" does NOT necessarily mean "good" or "holy" or |> >"righteous." |> |> Do you really believe that? Come now. The word "pure" will always |> have the connotation of "goodness". That's why it is used so often to |> advertise toilet paper and douches. |> |> >Saying that C++ is not a "pure" OOPL is NOT saying that C++ is |> >"sinful" or "evil." |> |> But that is the way it will be interpreted. I would have to agree. I wonder how strongly people would argue about how something is "a pure object-oriented language" if "a pure" is replaced with "just an". |> Robert Martin | Design Consulting | Training courses offered: |> Object Mentor Assoc.| rmartin@rcmcon.com | Object Oriented Analysis |> 2080 Cranbrook Rd. | Tel: (708) 918-1004 | Object Oriented Design |> Green Oaks IL 60048 | Fax: (708) 918-1023 | C++ -- --------------------------------------------------------------------- Ed Osinski Computer Science Department, New York University E-mail: osinski@cs.nyu.edu --------------------------------------------------------------------- In the early years of the 16th century, to combat the rising tide of religious unorthodoxy, the Pope gave Cardinal Ximinez of Spain leave to move without let or hindrance throughout the land, in a reign of violence, terror and torture that makes a smashing film. This was the Spanish Inquisition... -- Monty Python's Flying Circus