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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,703c4f68db81387d X-Google-Thread: 109fba,703c4f68db81387d X-Google-Thread: 115aec,703c4f68db81387d X-Google-Thread: f43e6,703c4f68db81387d X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,gid109fba,gid115aec,gidf43e6,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news3.google.com!news.glorb.com!news-out.ntli.net!newsrout1-gui.ntli.net!ntli.net!newsfe4-gui.ntli.net.POSTED!53ab2750!not-for-mail From: "Dr. Adrian Wrigley" Subject: Re: Teaching new tricks to an old dog (C++ -->Ada) User-Agent: Pan/0.14.2 (This is not a psychotic episode. It's a cleansing moment of clarity.) Message-Id: Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c++,comp.realtime,comp.software-eng References: <4229bad9$0$1019$afc38c87@news.optusnet.com.au> <1110032222.447846.167060@g14g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> <871xau9nlh.fsf@insalien.org> <3SjWd.103128$Vf.3969241@news000.worldonline.dk> <87r7iu85lf.fsf@insalien.org> <1110052142.832650@athnrd02> <1110284070.410136.205090@o13g2000cwo.googlegroups.com> <1110288473.850146@athnrd02> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Date: Tue, 08 Mar 2005 18:06:11 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 81.100.88.147 X-Complaints-To: http://www.ntlworld.com/netreport X-Trace: newsfe4-gui.ntli.net 1110305171 81.100.88.147 (Tue, 08 Mar 2005 18:06:11 GMT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 08 Mar 2005 18:06:11 GMT Organization: ntl Cablemodem News Service Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:8867 comp.lang.c++:44630 comp.realtime:1068 comp.software-eng:4621 Date: 2005-03-08T18:06:11+00:00 List-Id: On Tue, 08 Mar 2005 15:27:35 +0200, Ioannis Vranos wrote: > Dr. Adrian Wrigley wrote: > >>>>C++ was designed to produce an object-orientated >>>>extension to C. >>> >>>An all too common misconception. >> >> >> enlighten us please! > > C++ is a multiparadigm language and supports 4 paradigms. Each paradigm > is supported *well* with optimal space and time efficiencies. > > It does not enforce a specific paradigm, but allows the mixing of them > as the programmer thinks it fits better for a specific problem. This is is well known. I was asking for my misconception on what *C++ was designed for* to be dispelled. -- Adrian