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- From: linden@positive.Sun.COM (Peter van der Linden)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.java,comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.smalltalk
- Subject: Re: Will Java kill C++?
- Date: 15 Apr 1996 03:22:35 GMT
- Organization: Sun Microsystems Computer Corporation
- Message-ID: <4ksfdr$bhh@engnews2.Eng.Sun.COM>
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- Andrew Koenig <ark@research.att.com> wrote:
- > why aren't you agitating for a name-mangling standard in C?
- > Name mangling is a potential problem there too.
-
- It may be a potential problem, but name mangling isn't an actual problem in C.
- Names either don't get mangled, or everyone mangles them the same trivial way.
-
- Name-mangling in C++ was a grotesque hack (like having the compiler
- implemented as a C-preprocessor). It provided a compiler 4 months sooner,
- and set the language back five years.
-
- Let's try and face up to the deficiencies of C++. Not say "well C might
- be just as bad". When we admit the deficiencies of C++, we can start to
- look for something better. No programming language is perfect, let's just
- try to make them monotonically better.
-
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