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- From: dewar@cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar)
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- Subject: Re: C/C++ knocks the ....
- Date: 18 Feb 1996 08:16:32 -0500
- Organization: Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences
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- Ray Toal says:
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- "In this case there are good arguments for the "confuse" part - or,
- at least that identifying a class (a logical construct) with a
- package or module (a physical construct) is less desirable than
- cleanly separating them, like Ada does."
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- Yes indeed, I certainly agree that confuse is the right choice here :-)
-
- One of the problems that people have in moving from one language to
- another, especially if they only know one language well, is that they
- have trouble adjusting to a new way of thinking. They are always
- thinking "how do I do X in Y" where X is a solution in the old language
- and Y is the new language, instead of saying "how do I solve problem P in Y"
- where P is the original problem.
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- For people who think that object oriented programming is synonymous with
- C++ programming, there are definitely adjustments in thinking to be made
- in moving to Ada 95 (for example).
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