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- From: dstubbs@garden.csc.calpoly.edu (Dan Stubbs)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++,rec.games.programmer
- Subject: Re: ! Read me and State your opinion.
- Date: 11 Apr 1996 13:49:58 -0700
- Organization: Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo
- Message-ID: <4kjr9m$fj7@garden.csc.calpoly.edu>
- References: <4kegoq$f2d$1@mhadg.production.compuserve.com> <4keihq$2q6@jupiter.planet.net> <4keq1d$11a@news1.mnsinc.com> <4kgk0m$6lm@druid.borland.com>
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- In article <4kgk0m$6lm@druid.borland.com>,
- Pete Becker <pete@borland.com> wrote:
- >In article <4keq1d$11a@news1.mnsinc.com>, huang@mnsinc.com says...
- >>
- >>Chris Kemp (chrisk@paladn.com) wrote:
- >>
- >>: if you want to be a master of the machine, and if you are
- >>: using windows as your platform, C++ is literally the only
- >>: game. yes, it has a steep learning curve, but no other
- >>: language gives you the pointers and inheritance and
- >>: polymorphism that is needed to be a master. period.
- >>
- >>I presume this post came from comp.lang.c++. Tell us, Chris,
- >>if you consider Knuth or Kernighan or Ritchie or Thompson as
- >>"masters". Tell us, then, if they had C++, or inheritance,
- >>or polymorphism. Don't speak with such conviction next time,
- >>you tend to end up swallowing your foot.
- >
- >The world of programming is changing, and mastery today requires much more
- >powerful tools than it did ten years ago.
- >
-
-
- There is a lot of interest today in Object Oriented Programming (OOP). We
- are fortunate that there are several excellent OOP languages available
- to study: C++, Smalltalk, Eiffel, Ada95, ... . It seems to me that
- we will continue to see evolution of the specific incarnations of the
- OOP paradigm, and that things will only get better.
-
- To suggest that any one language is the greatest is way wide of the mark.
- IMHO it is necessary to have a good understanding of several of these
- languages in order to really understand the one you may be using at a
- particular moment.
-
-