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: fac41,b87849933931bc93 X-Google-Attributes: gidfac41,public X-Google-Thread: 109fba,b87849933931bc93 X-Google-Attributes: gid109fba,public X-Google-Thread: f43e6,b87849933931bc93 X-Google-Attributes: gidf43e6,public X-Google-Thread: 114809,b87849933931bc93 X-Google-Attributes: gid114809,public X-Google-Thread: 1108a1,b87849933931bc93 X-Google-Attributes: gid1108a1,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,b87849933931bc93 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: malak@access5.digex.net (Michael Malak) Subject: Re: What is wrong with OO ? Date: 1997/01/17 Message-ID: <5boj15$nk3@access5.digex.net>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 210474964 references: <5bifbqINNgh3@maz4.sma.ch> <32DCD7E1.5242@ehs.ericsson.se> <5bo7nq$b8b@news.istar.ca> organization: Express Access Online Communications, Greenbelt, MD USA newsgroups: comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.smalltalk,comp.lang.eiffel,comp.lang.ada,comp.object,comp.software-eng Date: 1997-01-17T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article <5bo7nq$b8b@news.istar.ca>, Tom Bushell wrote: > >As I believe someone else already pointed out, the C++ compiler >convention of creating an optimized, native code, standalone >executable file on disk is ass backwards - this should be a batch >operation that is performed once to create the production version of >the program. The rest of the time, it is much more important to allow >rapid turnaround for modifications, at the expense of execution speed >if necessary. The reason C++ is not interpreted is because there don't even exist correct C++ _compilers_ that conform to the ANSI Draft Working Paper. And the reason for that, of course, is because C++ is a complicated, quickly evolving (mutating?) language. -- Michael Malak Magic forwarding e-mail address: Washington, DC malak@acm.org