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- From: softbase@mercury.interpath.net (Scott McMahan - Softbase Systems)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.c
- Subject: Re: Opinions on Visual C/C++
- Followup-To: comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.c
- Date: 6 Mar 1996 23:13:59 GMT
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- Kazimir Kylheku (c2a192@ugrad.cs.ubc.ca) wrote:
- : In article <4hi57e$3bf@ams.amsinc.com>,
- : Steve Herborn <sherborn@mail.amsinc.com> wrote:
- : >Valid point Scott! As far as I'm concerned once you use any of the
- : >extensions of any product you are coding in a different langauge then
- : >as described in it's ANSI standard (if it has one).
-
- : It's not only as far as you are concerned. It's simply true!
-
- But when does it become a new language, and not just extensions? Why
- is Java not a dialect of C++, but a Windows program written in MFC
- using response table macros, a WinMain function, etc is a C++ program?
- Why isn't Visual C++ a new language the same way C is a new language
- compared to B? Visual C++ and Borland C++ have C++ compatibility
- modes, but it's such an incredibly small part of the overall package.
- C++ and C don't define a bitmapped user interface, and are not based on
- a message-passing paradim. A case could be made for ANSI
- standardization of Visual C++ :)
-
- Scott
-
- PS: In my haste to make the point, I cut a little too much out of
- the article I replied to -- apologies to the original poster!
- It wasn't my intent to take him out of context. I just wanted
- to raise a topic of more interest than how to access the carry
- flag and where to get a shareware C++ interpreter/decompiler.
-