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- From: pjl@sparc9.cs.uiuc.edu (Paul Lucas)
- Subject: Re: THINK C and C++ (was: C++ and other compilers)
- Message-ID: <1992Jul30.230729.4830@sunb10.cs.uiuc.edu>
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- Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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- Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1992 23:07:29 GMT
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- In <Jul.30.09.18.31.1992.14015@gandalf.rutgers.edu> rgonzal@gandalf.rutgers.edu (Ralph Gonzalez) writes:
-
- >jtgorman@cs.arizona.edu (J. Taggart Gorman) writes:
-
- >> THINK C does have some OOP in it, but I have heard people call it C+ or
- >>C+-.
-
- >Think C v.4.0 had minimal object extensions, and was somewhat upward
- >compatible with C++. Think C v.5.0 adds several additional C++ features,
- >and lets you write code which will compile under C++ without need for
- >conditional compilation. It still lacks many C++ features, though this
- >may in some cases be an advantage -- I've seen some really impenetrable
- ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- >C++ code...
- ^^^^^^^^
-
- *****> What...and there aren't impenetrable pieces of C (or Lisp, or
- Ada, or Pascal, or...) code? It's _always_ up to the programmer
- as to how comprehensible to make his/her programs; it's got
- nothing to do with the given language...nor should it. It's a
- people issue: languages don't make incomprehensible programs,
- programmers do.
-
- I also respectfully put forth the suggestion of the possibility
- that perhaps you just don't understand C++ very well. (That was
- a hyposthesis, not a flame.)
- --
- - Paul J. Lucas University of Illinois
- AT&T Bell Laboratories at Urbana-Champaign
- Naperville, IL pjl@cs.uiuc.edu
-