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- From: crawford@cris.com (Robert Crawford)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.eiffel,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++,comp.object,comp.software-eng
- Subject: Re: Beware of "C" Hackers -- A rebuttal to Bertrand Meyer
- Date: 24 Mar 1996 03:09:15 GMT
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- Kazimir Kylheku <c2a192@ugrad.cs.ubc.ca> wrote:
- >If you are a master in this paradigm, OO doesn't strike you as anything ``Zen
- >like'', but as a marginal improvement in some aspects of design and
- >implementation that's generally not worth the hassle. You can benefit from
- >OO approaches even ifyou use languages like C and Modula 2. You don't need the
- >extra linguistic frills to benefit from the useful concepts of the paradigm.
-
- Let me add that I've seen this done -- I'm working on a
- project that incorporated a lot of features that look, act, and read
- like objects. They just happen to be written in plain C.
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- We didn't have a C++ compiler, and we only had 3.5 trained C
- programmers, let alone anyone with enough experience in C++ to carry
- everyone else.
-
- --
- Robert Crawford crawford@iac.net http://www.iac.net/~crawford
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- Amazingly useful things, condoms.
- -- Torrie Thorsen, in "The Fire Duke" by Joel Rosenberg
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