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: 103376,a8e054cdddaee808,start X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: Ehud Lamm Subject: Re: Help me to chose between ADA 95 and C++ ( Date: 1999/12/22 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 563751173 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Complaints-To: usenet@news.huji.ac.il X-Trace: news.huji.ac.il 945857973 1538 132.64.178.45 (22 Dec 1999 10:19:33 GMT) Organization: The Hebrew University of Jerusalem Mime-Version: 1.0 NNTP-Posting-Date: 22 Dec 1999 10:19:33 GMT Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1999-12-22T10:19:33+00:00 List-Id: On Tue, 14 Dec 1999, Chris Powell wrote: |Brian Rogoff wrote: | |> Of course, none of this is really OO, but I think OO is way overrated anyways. |> Since you mention STL in the same paragraph as OO, I suppose I should ask |> you what you mean by OO. Most people wouldn't consider the STL OO, |> including its authors. | |Its true that the STL is not implemented using OO constructs, but it is |conceptually OO, with the concept of a container base class defining |methods for manipulating elements, which are overriden to work |differently for specific container types and the abstraction of |iterators which can work on any type of container... I hope you are saying this after reading Stepanov's view of OO. You can find it in the interviews linked from my site. Makes for interesting reading. Ehud Lamm mslamm@mscc.huji.ac.il http://purl.oclc.org/NET/ehudlamm <== My home on the web Check it out and subscribe to the E-List- for interesting essays and more!