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: 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: dweller@Starbase.NeoSoft.COM (David Weller) Subject: Re: C++ not OOP? (Was: Language Efficiency Date: 1995/04/22 Message-ID: <3nc9ip$f6u@Starbase.NeoSoft.COM>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 101369113 references: <3n5oup$g2s@atlantis.utmb.edu> <1995Apr21.190040.7332@rcmcon.com> organization: NeoSoft Internet Services +1 713 968 5800 newsgroups: comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.cobol Date: 1995-04-22T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article , Matt Austern wrote: >It's not foolish to make a distinction between languages that have >that sort of hierarchy and that have a base class from which all >classes inherit, and languages that don't. "Pure" is probably the >wrong word to use for that distinction; can anyone suggest a better? >-- How about something that gives a relative sense of how much the language is centered around accessing both data and operations around encapsulated declarations of objects... object-oriented, in other words. :-) One nice thing about adopting the concept of "scale" of "object-oriented" is that we can be dispassionate about it, since there are many, many other scales to consider when using or selecting a language (flexibility comes to mind as one example...there is very little correlation between the flexibility of a language and it's OO-ness). -- Frustrated with C, C++, Pascal, Fortran? Ada95 _might_ be for you! For all sorts of interesting Ada95 tidbits, run the command: "finger dweller@starbase.neosoft.com | more" (or e-mail with "finger" as subj.) if u cn rd ths, u r gd enuf to chg to Ada :-)