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- From: dewar@cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar)
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- Subject: Re: C/C++ knocks the ....
- Date: 17 Feb 1996 13:20:24 -0500
- Organization: Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences
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- iMatt says
- \
- "As for Ada, I'm not yet fully convinced abou the package vs
- type thing. C++ might be ugly because you can have all sorts of
- elements outside classes, but in Eiffel you cannot.
-
- Eiffel intentionally makes the unit of namespace and of type
- the same."
-
- Time to make my observation again:
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- unify and confuse mean the same thing (join together)
-
- but they express rather different judgments as to the desirability.
-
- Many arguments in language design come down to unify vs confuse (e.g.
- do expression languages unify or confuse the notions of statement
- and expression, does Algol-68 unify or confuse the notions of variable
- and pointer).
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