Re: Eiffel and Java

[ell@access4.digex.net (Ell)]

Ranjan Bagchi (ranjan.bagchi@pobox.com) wrote:
: Chris wrote:
: > 
: > The point with Java is that it's nearly C++.
: > 
: > So, even if it's not the best language, the C++ community would choose it
: > 
: > That's enough to make it a standard !
: > 
: > Chris
 
: Note:  Smalltalk bias.
: 
: I'd think that this kind standard would tend to produce a lot of Java 
: code which is just "C++ written in Java".  That is C++ code with 
: whatever syntactic tweaking is needed to get it pass the compiler.  

And there are large amounts of fully object-oriented C++, just as there
are other forms of C++ code.  I.e. there is much C++ code which models in
an OO way, and which uses OO design techniques to reduce dependencies.
 
: This is similar to what has happened in the C++ community where the joke 
: was that there were only 5 real C++ programmers and everyone else was 
: just coding C.  There wasn't enough incentive to use the kind of C++ 
: idioms that Coplien and Myers write about in their books.
: 
: That's what's really neat about languages like Smalltalk where
: the language forces programmers to start thinking in Smalltalk's object 
: model and produce Smalltalk written in Smalltalk.

Isn't it possible for someone to write a Smalltalk program with bad design
decompostion from an OO perspective? 

Elliott