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- From: softbase@mercury.interpath.net (Scott McMahan - Softbase Systems)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
- Subject: Re: Is there any limit to the overloading of names and templates. C++ overrated?
- Date: 18 Mar 1996 18:43:09 GMT
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- Eric (ericpe@vt.edu) wrote:
- : Is it possiple to go beyond the capability of the overload technique in
- : any compilier?
-
- Based on name-mangling, there shouldn't be. Each mangled name
- is unique.
-
- : Is C++ over-rated?
-
- It sure is! But then, what isn't?
-
- : Is there a suitable equilvalent that will get
- : programs done with just a little bit more structure than the anarchist
- : nature of C++?
-
- OOP that starts from a more rigid base language than C might be a little
- better than C++. C++ is like C, it tries to be all things to all
- people! You can go from *standard* "asm" code to all the things C can
- do to your pick of OOP paradigms such as Simula, Smalltalk, MVC, etc.
- It's confusing as heck because C++ uses strange, non-intuitive ways of
- implementing things, but you can do it. And, like C, if you want to
- any of the rules can be broken!
-
- Scott
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