From: pmacdona@sanjuan (Peter MacDonald) Subject: Re: ALPHA-pl11 available on nic: C++ support Date: Fri, 9 Jul 1993 02:07:56 GMT
In article <C9ux90.KpF@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> lfoard@hopper.ACS.Virginia.EDU (Lawrence C. Foard) writes:
>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:
...
>>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.
C++ offers superior IO facilities, according to Strousup (sp?). I learned
it from his book years ago, and think he hit the nail on the head.
Also, C++ drove ansi C to use prototypes.
Peter