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- From: ell@access4.digex.net (Ell)
- Newsgroups: comp.object,comp.software-eng,comp.lang.c++
- Subject: Re: Moving from C to C++
- Followup-To: comp.object,comp.software-eng,comp.lang.c++
- Date: 18 Feb 1996 23:32:07 GMT
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- Curtis Green (curtis@amc.com) wrote:
- : Ell (ell@access1.digex.net) wrote:
- ::Steven Hampson (steveh@jtec.com.au) wrote:
- ::: Perhaps there should be a distinction between the methodology and the tool
- ::: used to achieve that methodology. There is a general shift to the ADT, OOT
- ::: methodolgy, but this does not imply that there has to be a shift from C to
- ::: C++.
- ::: The best tool for the job is surely the tool that allows the job to be
- ::: done best.
- ::: This can be C, C++, Ada, Smalltalk, Assembler - whatever. Languauges
- ::: should be
- ::: chosen to fit the task at hand, not the other way round.
-
- : : Yeauh, but most find it cumbersome and a lot of work implementing
- : : polymorphism using C.
-
- : Thats what steve said. If it is cumbersome and a lot of work implementing
- : polymorphism in C, then find a language that makes it easier. C++ was
- : developed to do just that, if going to OO ideas with a pile of C code
- : that needs to be reused. If not, one of the other OO languages might
- : make more sense.
-
- He also said that going to OOT does not imply there has to be a shift from
- C to C++. He also mentioned possibly using assmbler for oot. While oot
- is possible using C, or assembler in general why do oot without using an
- oopl?
-
- Elliott
-