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- From: mich@pbinet.com
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- Subject: Re: ! Read me and State your opinion.
- Date: 20 Apr 1996 17:45:36 GMT
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- In <19960419.132249.755914.NETNEWS@WVNVM.WVNET.EDU>, mbrown@olie.wvitcoe.wvnet.edu (Myron Brown) writes:
- >: C++ is C, with a little extra added on. Dont call it High level, I
- >: consider it an insult.... :) At least call it "A tad above middle level, but
- >: way under high level."
-
- > I agree. This kind of categorization of languages is based on levels
- >of abstraction from the hardware, and C and C++ are the same in that respect.
-
- Check. The introduction of an object-oriented facade (a la C++) doesn't nessessarily
- bring a language up in levels. C++'s continued major reliance on the pointer concept
- and ability to directly manipulate the machine at the hardware level when the
- programmer so elects keeps it squarely in the mid level range, in my opinion. One
- could put an oo wrapper on any language I think...
- Java with its true oo implemenbtation probably rates it as a 3gl.
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