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- From: bjorn@darmok.uoregon.edu (Bjorn S. Fjeld Pettersen)
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- Subject: Re: The Darker Side of C++ (forwarded)
- Message-ID: <1iv5ijINN8ba@pith.uoregon.edu>
- Date: 12 Jan 93 19:18:43 GMT
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- References: <1993Jan12.165154.26915@dvorak.amd.com>
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- In article <1993Jan12.165154.26915@dvorak.amd.com> rpomeroy@aunext1.amd.com
- (Ron Pomeroy x(Coop)) writes:
- > 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!!
- >
- > --
- > Ronald Pomeroy [Objective-Cruntime: [Smalltalk runtime]];
-
- When I can do this in Obj-C I would be happy (tm):
-
- String a = "hello", b = " ", c = "world";
- cout << a + b + c + '\n';
-
- Until then things (tm) look soooo much prettier in C++.
- (BTW, where is that multiple inheritance in Obj-C???)
-
- --bjorn
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