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- From: pkron@corona.wa.com (Peter Kron)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++,comp.object
- Subject: Re: Pros and cons of C++
- Message-ID: <3.UUL1.3#16216@corona.wa.com>
- Date: Tue, 12 Jan 93 12:40:42 PDT
- References: <MUTS.93Jan12100059@PMCS.estec.esa.nl>
- Organization: Corona Design, Inc.
- Reply-To: Peter_Kron@corona.wa.com
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- > Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 10:00:46 GMT
- > muts@estec.esa.nl (Peter Mutsaers) writes:
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- > ...IMHO the main criticism on C++ is that it does not *enforce* pure OO
- > structured programs. On the other hand, I, and many other programmers,
- > don't like to be forced too much in a direction and I think I can have
- > my own discipline to do things right, and like to have the freedom to
- > brake the pure rules in the rare cases where that is advantageous...
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- Actually, my criticism is that it enforces *too* much. I much
- prefer Smalltalk or Objective-C where the compile-time type
- checking is not so rigorous. IMHO C++ *is* complex because
- this type checking forces use of templates, casts, virtual
- base classes--all of which muddy the water, and for very
- little gain in practice.
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- Peter Kron
- Corona Design, Inc.
- Peter_Kron@corona.wa.com
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