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: 103376,97482af7429a6a62 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 109fba,97482af7429a6a62 X-Google-Attributes: gid109fba,public X-Google-Thread: 10d15b,97482af7429a6a62 X-Google-Attributes: gid10d15b,public From: dewar@cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar) Subject: Re: C++ not OOP? (Was: Language Efficiency Date: 1995/04/21 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 101369156 references: <3n3o9c$cud@atlantis.utmb.edu> <3n43p0$ehs@Starbase.NeoSoft.COM> <3n5oup$g2s@atlantis.utmb.edu> <3n5r92$95@Starbase.NeoSoft.COM> <3n89vl$kmr@atlantis.utmb.edu> organization: Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences newsgroups: comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.cobol Date: 1995-04-21T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: OK Curtis, then since we are just talking terminology, with no other kind of motives, let's choose an unloaded word (you could after all choose a loaded word on the other side, like restrictive). how about something like "centered", which seems pretty neutral. But somehow, I don't think people would put nearly as much energy into the debate on either side if we were just asking whether C++ was object-centered ...