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- From: sailer@hpuerca.atl.hp.com (Lee Sailer)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++,comp.object
- Subject: Re: Pros and cons of C++
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- Date: 7 Jan 93 17:48:44 GMT
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- Organization: Hewlett-Packard NARC Atlanta
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- John Ross (yjohn@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca) wrote:
- : Hi Netters,
- :
- : I just read a paper by Markku Sakkinen titled "The Darker Side of C++
- : Revisited," (Structured Programming [1992] 13: 155-177).
- :
- .. comments deleted ...
- :
- : Why then is it becoming so popular? Why the deluge of texts, articles,
- : magazines, news groups, compilers, etc? It seems to me that C++ _will_
-
- Good question. I suppose that the usual superficial arguments apply:
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- 1. It is a language that C programmers can learn incrementally.
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- 2. It is from a big name source, Bell Labs.
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- 3. It's creators are very, very industrious.
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- 4. Alternatives, such as Objective-C and Eiffel, weren't from big names
- and their creators weren't as industrious. (Apologies to Cox and
- Meyer, who are both working very hard.)
-
- I prefer Objective-C, though Eiffel is very nice. I sometimes teach
- and consult C++ for a living, because that's where the marketplace is.
-
- I predict a minor resurgence of Objective-C. Consider the following:
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- 1. NeXT is still surviving, and it uses Obj-C heavily.
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- 2. FSF has added Obj-C to its C/C++/OBJ-C compiler.
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- 3. There is an Obj-C front end for Borland C.
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- In 1 and 2, it is more correct to call the language Obj-C++, since
- both syntaxes can be used in a single program, without great difficulty.
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- --
- Lee Sailer
-
- - Let's leave my employer
- out of this, OK?
-