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- Path: sparky!uunet!psinntp!gatekeeper.nsc.com!voder!genie!roger
- From: roger@genie.UUCP (Roger H. Scott)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
- Subject: Re: "type safety" deemed essential
- Message-ID: <450@genie.UUCP>
- Date: 1 Jan 93 19:04:41 GMT
- References: <725053473snx@trmphrst.demon.co.uk>
- Reply-To: roger@genie.UUCP (Roger H. Scott)
- Organization: proCASE Corporation, Santa Clara, CA
- Lines: 15
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- In article <725053473snx@trmphrst.demon.co.uk> nikki@trmphrst.demon.co.uk writes:
- >In article <448@genie.UUCP> roger@genie.UUCP (Roger H. Scott) writes:
- >> ... [W]ho has written a non-trivial commercial C++
- >> application *without* making significant use of either type casting [(T *)]
- >> or run-time type checking [Bar *bar_p = foo_p->asBar();]?
- >
- >Does my Text Mode User Interface Toolkit count ?
-
- Not to denegrate tool kits in general in any way, but the short answer is "no".
- The sorts of code one writes for a general purpose tool kit tend to be
- rather different than the code one ends up writing for an end application.
- [It has often seemed to me that C++ has evolved to be more closely tuned
- to the needs of tool kit, or library, writers than for "end" users.]
- A non-trivial commercial application *using* the T.M.U.I. kit *would* count,
- of course.
-