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=1.1 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_20,INVALID_MSGID, SUBJ_ALL_CAPS autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 1014db,4873305131bf4d94 X-Google-Attributes: gid1014db,public X-Google-Thread: 109fba,4873305131bf4d94 X-Google-Attributes: gid109fba,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,4873305131bf4d94 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: fdb77,4873305131bf4d94 X-Google-Attributes: gidfdb77,public From: kaz@helios.crest.nt.com (Kaz Kylheku) Subject: Re: ADA SUCKS, C/C++/JAVA RULES!!!! Date: 1997/11/07 Message-ID: <63vsh7$t45$1@helios.crest.nt.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 287738121 References: <34557f2b.1934172@news.mindspring.com> <345B7A48.F32E4924@flash.net> <63usl7$hqo$7@route1.mdrf.france3.fr> Organization: A poorly-installed InterNetNews site Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.java.advocacy Date: 1997-11-07T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article <63usl7$hqo$7@route1.mdrf.france3.fr>, Boyd Roberts wrote: >In article , jstevens@samoyed.ftc.nrcs.usda.gov (John Stevens) writes: >>Sort of like what I tell my students: learning C++ doesn't make you an >>object oriented programmer. Learning the OOP paradigm, however, will >>make it childishly simple to write in whatever OOPL you choose for the >>current project. It becomes a simple matter of translation from design to >>language specific syntax, at that point. > >Simple matter of syntax? You are living in a dream world. > >Say the design calls for a feature the language does not have? It then could be that the design contains inappropriate implementation details rather than focusing on abstractions and their relationships. Or it could be that the language simply does genuinely lack a way to express these abstractions and relationships: e.g. your detailed design calls for multiple inheritance and you don't have it in the language. -- "In My Egotistical Opinion, most people's C programs should be indented six feet downward and covered with dirt." -- Blair P. Houghton