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- From: rpomeroy@aunext1.amd.com (Ron Pomeroy x(Coop))
- Subject: Re: The Darker Side of C++ (forwarded)
- Message-ID: <1993Jan12.165154.26915@dvorak.amd.com>
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- Organization: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.; Austin, Texas
- References: <63320@mimsy.umd.edu>
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- Date: Tue, 12 Jan 93 16:51:54 GMT
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- In article <63320@mimsy.umd.edu> alex@cs.umd.edu (Alex Blakemore) writes:
- >>I thought some Obj-C users would find it interesting.
- [munch munch]
- >>
- >> ANNOUNCEMENT OF A LECTURE
- >>
- >>
- >> -- "THE DARKER SIDE OF C++" --
- >>
- >> Wednesday, January 27, 1993
- >> 15.15 o'clock (end at 17.00 at the latest)
- >>
- >>
- >> Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne - Site Ecublens
- >> Batiments du Departement d'informatique - room INR 219
- >>
- >>
- >> by MARKKU SAKKINEN, University of Jyvaskyla, Finland
- >>
- >>
- [munch munch]
-
- >>The worst disadvantage of C++ at the moment is political: accepting
- >>C++ as the standard OO language de facto tends to kill other existing
- >>languages, and stifle the development of a new generation of
- >>essentially better OO languages.
-
- Aaaaaaaaaamen!!
-
- --
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