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From: WELTY@GE-CRD.ARPA (WELTY RICHARD P)
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Subject: Where do the ideas come from ? (was: Hopper's Errors)
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Date: 19-MAR-1987 11:39
From: Richard Welty
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Subject: Where do the ideas come from ? (was: Hopper's Errors)
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> larry@Jpl-VLSI.ARPA writes:
>...  It's interesting that AT&T has
>sponsored a follow-on to C (C++) which has several analogs of Ada features. 

There are some similarities but also some distinct differences (see my
earlier posting), but the authors of C++ credit Simula 67,
Algol 68, and Smalltalk 80 as the sources for their ideas (according
to the C++ Tutorial presented at OOPSLA-86).

				-- Richard Welty (welty@ge-crd.arpa)

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