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,b87849933931bc93 X-Google-Attributes: gid109fba,public X-Google-Thread: fac41,b87849933931bc93 X-Google-Attributes: gidfac41,public X-Google-Thread: f43e6,b87849933931bc93 X-Google-Attributes: gidf43e6,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,b87849933931bc93 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 1108a1,b87849933931bc93 X-Google-Attributes: gid1108a1,public X-Google-Thread: 114809,b87849933931bc93 X-Google-Attributes: gid114809,public From: ok@goanna.cs.rmit.edu.au (Richard A. O'Keefe) Subject: Re: What is wrong with OO ? Date: 1997/01/08 Message-ID: <5ava9s$dat$1@goanna.cs.rmit.edu.au>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 208537980 references: <5acjtn$5uj@news3.digex.net> organization: Comp Sci, RMIT, Melbourne, Australia newsgroups: comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.smalltalk,comp.lang.eiffel,comp.lang.ada,comp.object,comp.software-eng nntp-posting-user: ok Date: 1997-01-08T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: ell@access1.digex.net (Ell) writes: >Led (first or second) wrt the OO paradigm: Private data members, static >resolution of overloaded functions, protected members, and multiple >inheritance. Aren't the keywords 'private' and 'protected' copied from Simula? (The old "Common Base Language" definition didn't have them, but they were in Simula before they were in C++.) As for multiple inheritance, there was a multiple-inheritance version of Smalltalk before C++ got it. As for static resolution of overloaded *functions*, Algol 68 had _that_ long before C was dreamed of, let alone C++. C++ deserves the credit for getting some of these things into the hands of the programmer on the street. -- My tertiary education cost a quarter of a million in lost income (assuming close-to-minimum wage); why make students pay even more? Richard A. O'Keefe; http://www.cs.rmit.edu.au/%7Eok; RMIT Comp.Sci.