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: 103376,b87849933931bc93 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: f43e6,b87849933931bc93 X-Google-Attributes: gidf43e6,public X-Google-Thread: 1108a1,b87849933931bc93 X-Google-Attributes: gid1108a1,public X-Google-Thread: 114809,b87849933931bc93 X-Google-Attributes: gid114809,public From: jsa@alexandria (Jon S Anthony) Subject: Re: What is wrong with OO ? Date: 1997/01/03 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 207531841 sender: news@organon.com (news) references: <5acjtn$5uj@news3.digex.net> organization: Organon Motives, Inc. newsgroups: comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.smalltalk,comp.lang.eiffel,comp.lang.ada,comp.object,comp.software-eng Date: 1997-01-03T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article rmartin@oma.com (Robert C. Martin) writes: > In article , jsa@alexandria (Jon S Anthony) wrote: > > > > > C++ was and is a _follower_. That is not necessarily a bad thing, but > > it is anything _but_ innovative. > > > > WRT technology I agree with you. But C++ *does* show innovation in a > completely different vein. C++ is one of the first of the industrial OO > languages that was created for the engineer instead of for the paradigm. > C++ was not created to be "pure" or "right" or "correct". It was created > to be *used*. And in that regard it represents an innovation wrt industrial > OO languages. Oh, I don't know. I think C++ was created simply because BS was saddled with C (at ATT) and wanted _something_ that had a least _some_ abstraction capabilities in it. Voila. C++. Whether it is any more "usable" than several other options is highly open to question. And in fact, in general I would say the answer is "no". /Jon -- Jon Anthony Organon Motives, Inc. Belmont, MA 02178 617.484.3383 jsa@organon.com