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: 10a146,a03ae7f4e53958e1 X-Google-Attributes: gid10a146,public X-Google-Thread: 1094ba,a03ae7f4e53958e1 X-Google-Attributes: gid1094ba,public X-Google-Thread: 1014db,a03ae7f4e53958e1 X-Google-Attributes: gid1014db,public X-Google-Thread: 109fba,a03ae7f4e53958e1 X-Google-Attributes: gid109fba,public X-Google-Thread: 114809,a03ae7f4e53958e1 X-Google-Attributes: gid114809,public X-Google-Thread: fac41,a03ae7f4e53958e1 X-Google-Attributes: gidfac41,public X-Google-Thread: fa0ae,a03ae7f4e53958e1 X-Google-Attributes: gidfa0ae,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,8775b19e3c68a5dc X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: "Dann Corbit" Subject: Re: Which language pays most? Smalltalk, not C++ nor Java. Date: 1997/12/31 Message-ID: <68efk9$681$1@client3.news.psi.net>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 311749655 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <199712121931.LAA25389@sirius.infonex.com> <67iipp$ktj$1@darla.visi.com> <882756127snz@genesis.demon.co.uk> <34A14C27.57C0@min.net> <67rjb3$pfb$1@brie.direct.ca> <34A50CAA.54AA@netup.cl> <685mee$5d4$1@sparcserver.lrz-muenchen.de> <34A812F9.C169A703@its.cl> <68edmi$g46$1@news2.ispnews.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.2106.4 Organization: PSINet Mime-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.fortran,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.eiffel,comp.lang.java.programmer,comp.lang.smalltalk,comp.lang.perl.misc,comp.lang.ada,comp.edu Date: 1997-12-31T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: Brock wrote in message <68edmi$g46$1@news2.ispnews.com>... > >firewind wrote in message ... ><>And I'm curious as to the usefulness of this, anyway. How can you use a >>structure that you don't know the layout of? ><< > >I would think that an OO programmer in particular would not want to know >anything about the implementation(layout) of the object, just the interface. Except, of course, when he/she is designing the class. Before the complexity gets abstracted, someone has to deal with it. -- C-FAQ ftp sites: ftp://ftp.eskimo.com ftp://rtfm.mit.edu Hypertext C-FAQ: http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/C-faq/top.html C-FAQ Book: ISBN 0-201-84519-9. Want Software? Algorithms? Pubs? http://www.infoseek.com