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From: ell@access5.digex.net (Ell)
Subject: Re: What is wrong with OO ?
Date: 1997/01/18
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Kent Budge ("kgbudge,"@,sandia,.gov) wrote:
: Michael Malak wrote:
: ...
: > 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.
 
: ...
: But there is at least one C++ interpreter out there -- CenterLine C++.
: Of course, it's not fully consistent with the latest ANSI working paper, 
: for the reasons you mention.

To me the reason no tools "conform" to the ANSI Working Paper is not
primarily because C++ is complicated, but because the "working paper" has
been quickly evolving.

Elliott