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From: dewar@cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar)
Subject: Re: C/C++ knocks the ....
Date: 1996/02/18
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Ray Toal says:

"In this case there are good arguments for the "confuse" part - or,
at least that identifying a class (a logical construct) with a
package or module (a physical construct) is less desirable than
cleanly separating them, like Ada does."

Yes indeed, I certainly agree that confuse is the right choice here :-)

One of the problems that people have in moving from one language to
another, especially if they only know one language well, is that they
have trouble adjusting to a new way of thinking. They are always
thinking "how do I do X in Y" where X is a solution in the old language
and Y is the new language, instead of saying "how do I solve problem P in Y"
where P is the original problem.

For people who think that object oriented programming is synonymous with
C++ programming, there are definitely adjustments in thinking to be made
in moving to Ada 95 (for example).