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- From: Jesper Bagger <Jesper.Bagger@cdc.com>
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.modula3,comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.java
- Subject: Re: Java closer to Modula-3 than to C++
- Date: 27 Feb 1996 10:39:59 GMT
- Organization: AmeriData Denmark
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- Kevin Berry <kevinb@icl.co.za> wrote:
- >> I wish it could widen then use of Modula-3 (I still can't understand
- >> where C++ gets its success from...).
-
- >I agree with you - I don't know where C++ gets its popularity from!
- >
- >C++'s complex architecture is not suited to compiler speed or fast interpreted speed.
- >C++ may be a powerful language but it also is too complex to create a compiler which
- >compiles at a decent speed.
- ..
- > The problem with C++ is that in effect code appears as one huge source file to the C++
- > compiler (because .h files are "included".
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- I totally aggre on this problem in C++. Four years ago (before Delphi) I moved from Turbo
- Pascal (where Pascal units where introduced) to Borland C++, and I was chocked by the
- difference in compilation time.
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- As a project leader at a medium scale project using C++ on Solaris, I also know about the
- steep learning curve of C++, especially for people not familiar with the oddities of C++.
- If I could redo our initial choice of programming language, I would have recommended a more
- consistent language like Eiffel.
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- Jesper Bagger
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