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: 10a146,a03ae7f4e53958e1 X-Google-Attributes: gid10a146,public X-Google-Thread: fac41,a03ae7f4e53958e1 X-Google-Attributes: gidfac41,public X-Google-Thread: 1014db,a03ae7f4e53958e1 X-Google-Attributes: gid1014db,public X-Google-Thread: 109fba,a03ae7f4e53958e1 X-Google-Attributes: gid109fba,public X-Google-Thread: 1094ba,a03ae7f4e53958e1 X-Google-Attributes: gid1094ba,public X-Google-Thread: 114809,a03ae7f4e53958e1 X-Google-Attributes: gid114809,public X-Google-Thread: fa0ae,a03ae7f4e53958e1 X-Google-Attributes: gidfa0ae,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,8775b19e3c68a5dc X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: Jon S Anthony Subject: Re: Which language pays most? Smalltalk, not C++ nor Java. Date: 1997/12/31 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 311703201 References: <199712121931.LAA25389@sirius.infonex.com> <685mee$5d4$1@sparcserver.lrz-muenchen.de> <34A812F9.C169A703@its.cl> <68bu22$geg$1@brie.direct.ca> <68c66j$ei3$1@client3.news.psi.net> <34AA8AC7.2A4A@min.net> Distribution: world Organization: PSINet Newsgroups: comp.lang.fortran,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.eiffel,comp.lang.java.programmer,comp.lang.smalltalk,comp.lang.perl.misc,comp.lang.ada,comp.edu Date: 1997-12-31T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: John Porter writes: > Of course in C++ it would be pretty easy to make a class that implements > integers of unlimited (dynamic) size. Making it efficient would be a > little > harder... There is nothing special about C++ in this respect. You can do this in anything (in particular the Ada take would in all likelihood look very close to the C++ take). Now, OTOH (as someone else already mentioned), you already get this for free in Common Lisp. Of course making it efficient is rather more than "a little harder"... /Jon -- Jon Anthony Synquiry Technologies, Ltd., Belmont, MA 02178, 617.484.3383 "Nightmares - Ha! The way my life's been going lately, Who'd notice?" -- Londo Mollari