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: f43e6,b87849933931bc93 X-Google-Attributes: gidf43e6,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,b87849933931bc93 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 114809,b87849933931bc93 X-Google-Attributes: gid114809,public X-Google-Thread: 1108a1,b87849933931bc93 X-Google-Attributes: gid1108a1,public From: jsa@alexandria (Jon S Anthony) Subject: Re: What is wrong with OO ? Date: 1997/01/07 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 208159521 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: 1997-01-07T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article Matt Austern writes: > jsa@alexandria (Jon S Anthony) writes: > > > 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". > > It's not necessary to speculate on why Bjarne Stroustrup made the > design decisions that he did: he discusses them, in a fair amount > of detail, in _The Design and Evolution of C++_. He also gave various descriptions of this process while it was happening cira 87-89 and I happened to attend some of these. > he was trying to create a language that, like C, made it possible to > write low-level programs, but that also, like Simula, included > high-level abstraction facilities. Exactly. This came from his direct experience of having to recode a Simula program for his thesis into BCPL. The resulting nightmare was not something he wished to have to go through again. When getting to ATT and seeing that it was C or nothing, he decided to "fix it" before suffering the same experience. /Jon -- Jon Anthony Organon Motives, Inc. Belmont, MA 02178 617.484.3383 jsa@organon.com