From: rcook@imonics.com (Imonics Corporation)
Subject: Re: Java Risks (Was: Ada News Brief - 96-05-24
Date: 1996/06/03
Date: 1996-06-03T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4ov5e5$6rr@bughouse.imonics.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 4ov36b$1665@watnews1.watson.ibm.com
In article <4ov36b$1665@watnews1.watson.ibm.com>,
Norman H. Cohen <ncohen@watson.ibm.com> wrote:
>Richard Riehle <rriehle@nunic.nu.edu> writes:
>
>|> There are aspects of C++ that, as orginally conceived by Dr.
>|> Stroustrup, make very good sense. The fundamental idea of
>|> expanding the stuct into a class was a stroke of brilliance.
>
>I disagree. It is the confusion of classes and structs (along with the
>confusion of class-as-type-definition and class-as-module) that leads to
>absurdities such as the following:
<coding anomaly deleted>
>Norman H. Cohen ncohen@watson.ibm.com
I think you may have misunderstood. What I got out of the
statement was that the conceptual expansion was a stroke of
brilliance, not that the details of a C construct being expanded
into a C++ construct was.
rc
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1996-05-24 0:00 Ada News Brief - 96-05-24.txt [1/1] AdaIC
1996-05-27 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
1996-05-27 0:00 ` Tucker Taft
1996-05-28 0:00 ` Richard Riehle
1996-05-29 0:00 ` Andreas Zeller
1996-05-30 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-06-01 0:00 ` AdaWorks
1996-06-01 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-06-01 0:00 ` Mike Young
1996-06-03 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-06-04 0:00 ` Richard Riehle
1996-06-01 0:00 ` AdaWorks
1996-06-01 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-05-30 0:00 ` Java Risks (Was: Ada News Brief - 96-05-24 Richard Riehle
1996-05-31 0:00 ` Java Risks (should be Java mis-speak) The Right Reverend Colin James III
1996-06-02 0:00 ` Richard Riehle
1996-06-03 0:00 ` Tucker Taft
1996-05-31 0:00 ` Java Risks (Was: Ada News Brief - 96-05-24 Brian N. Miller
1996-06-02 0:00 ` Richard Riehle
1996-06-03 0:00 ` Ken Garlington
1996-06-04 0:00 ` Bill Brooks
1996-06-06 0:00 ` Bjarne Stroustrup <9758-26353> 0112760
1996-06-06 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
[not found] ` <4omoh4$k0f@ansible.bbt.com <4ov36b$1665@watnews1.watson.ibm.com>
1996-06-04 0:00 ` Richard Riehle
1996-05-31 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1996-06-01 0:00 ` Java Risks David Hopwood
1996-06-02 0:00 ` Java Risks (Was: Ada News Brief - 96-05-24 Richard Riehle
1996-06-01 0:00 ` Bob Crispen
1996-06-05 0:00 ` Alan Brain
1996-06-03 0:00 ` Norman H. Cohen
1996-06-03 0:00 ` Imonics Corporation [this message]
1996-06-07 0:00 ` Peter Wentworth
1996-06-05 0:00 ` Norman H. Cohen
1996-06-05 0:00 ` Bill Brennamw
1996-06-08 0:00 ` Brian N. Miller
1996-06-09 0:00 ` Jim Kingdon
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1996-06-03 0:00 Jon S Anthony
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