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- From: warsaw@nlm.nih.gov (Barry A. Warsaw)
- Subject: Re: Give me safe C++
- In-Reply-To: feathers@serss0's message of Fri, 11 Dec 1992 01:41:38 GMT
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- Date: 11 Dec 92 17:44:41 GMT
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- >>>>> "Michael" == Michael Feathers <feathers@serss0> writes:
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- Michael> The Ada people had the best of intentions, I'm sure, but
- Michael> I think that C and C++ are versatile languages precisely
- Michael> because no one ever tried to limit their functionality
- Michael> with good intentions.
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- Agreed. IMHO, the real power of C++ as a development language is the
- ability to easily climb up and down the abstraction ladder depending
- on the context of the problem. Sometimes you need to mingle with the
- bits in the basement, sometimes you just need ADTs and sometimes you
- really want to do OOP. The beauty of C++ is that it seamlessly
- supports many levels of abstraction.
-