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: f43e6,12f4d07c572005e3 X-Google-Attributes: gidf43e6,public X-Google-Thread: ff6c8,12f4d07c572005e3 X-Google-Attributes: gidff6c8,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,12f4d07c572005e3 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 10db24,12f4d07c572005e3 X-Google-Attributes: gid10db24,public X-Google-Thread: 1108a1,12f4d07c572005e3 X-Google-Attributes: gid1108a1,public From: rcook@imonics.com (Imonics Corporation) Subject: Re: Java Risks (Was: Ada News Brief - 96-05-24 Date: 1996/06/03 Message-ID: <4ov5e5$6rr@bughouse.imonics.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 158248842 references: <4o56db$p66@ns1.sw-eng.falls-church.va.us> <4omoh4$k0f@ansible.bbt.com> <4ov36b$1665@watnews1.watson.ibm.com> organization: Imonics Corporation newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.sw.components,comp.object,comp.software-eng,comp.edu Date: 1996-06-03T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article <4ov36b$1665@watnews1.watson.ibm.com>, Norman H. Cohen wrote: >Richard Riehle 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: >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