From: lfoard@hopper.ACS.Virginia.EDU (Lawrence C. Foard) Subject: Re: ALPHA-pl11 available on nic: C++ support Date: Thu, 8 Jul 1993 17:43:48 GMT
In article <16099@blue.cis.pitt.edu> hahn@neurocog.lrdc.pitt.edu (Mark Hahn) writes:
>
>Fergus James HENDERSON (fjh@munta.cs.mu.OZ.AU) wrote:
>> >>Learn it now or learn it later: C++ is the standard.
>> >>
>> >Ummm...Mark... A touch of reality please... C++ is popular, there *is* a C++
>> >standard, but C++ is *not* *the* standard.
>
>> To correct a factual error: there is no C++ standard as yet.
>> The C++ standard is not expected to be completed until about 1996 or later
>> (very roughly).
>
>This is getting ridiculous. Look, if you're interested in writing new and
>interesting software for a real market, you WILL use C++. There is still a
>place for Fortran, and even Cobol (near Hell.) Standards such as ANSI C are
>useful, but in the case of C++ are only going to be legislating trivial
>fringes, like libraries. ARM is only a few years old and isn't going to be
>obsoleted the way K&R has been.
>
>Use classes and overloading and inlining; they're here to stay and they
>offer real advantages over straight C code.
I started looking at it once but it just seems far to cludgy. I went back
to ansi C. Its simply a myth that C++ is required for object oriented
programming. I use object oriented programming all the time in C, the
only thing C++ would do is eliminate some typing, but with a cost in run
time and code size.
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