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- From: bs@alice.att.com (Bjarne Stroustrup)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
- Subject: Re: What is Object Oriented Programming? Is C doomed?
- Message-ID: <24393@alice.att.com>
- Date: 12 Dec 92 14:16:44 GMT
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- hartman@ulogic.UUCP (Richard M. Hartman @ negligable) writes
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- > OOP and C++ is NOT a "silver bullet", any more than "structured programming"
- > was. It is a new tool that gives us the potential for things that were
- > more difficult before, but in and of itself does NOTHING. That is the
- > job of the software designer. If it is done poorly, it is done poorly
- > no matter what the language or paradigm.
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- I'll just add that this is what I and others in the C++ community have been
- saying for years. OOP/C++ is a powerful set of concepts/tools, but if applied
- ``with the brain switched off and hopes of miracles fuled by hype merchants''
- there is little reason to believe that the results will be better than what
- would have been obtained if C or any other language had been used in that
- state of mind.
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- > Never speak in absolutes. It will always lead to trouble.
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- :-)
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