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  1. Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!gumby!destroyer!gatech!cc.gatech.edu!news
  3. From: brianm@cc.gatech.edu (Brian N. Miller)
  4. Subject: Re: Criticisms Wanted
  5. Message-ID: <1992Nov8.170309.12301@cc.gatech.edu>
  6. Sender: news@cc.gatech.edu
  7. Reply-To: brianm@cc.gatech.edu (Brian N. Miller)
  8. Organization: College of Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology
  9. References: <1d8d5fINN2ro@bHARs12c.bnr.co.uk> <1992Nov7.113444.3225@netcom.com> <BxDDJy.9GC@slipknot.rain.com>
  10. Date: Sun, 8 Nov 1992 17:03:09 GMT
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  12.  
  13. In article <BxDDJy.9GC@slipknot.rain.com> robert@slipknot.rain.com.UUCP (Robert Reed) writes:
  14. >One criticism I've heard is that the time saved in debugging due to the strong
  15. >typing is consumed in optimizing.
  16.  
  17. Strong typing complicates optimization?  I don't think so.  If anything, it
  18. simplifies it.
  19.  
  20. >Also, I've seen complaints that tenet of information hiding and code reuse is a
  21. >myth with C++ because in order to understand a class you intend to reuse, you
  22. >must study the source code anyway.
  23.  
  24. That has little to do with C++.  I can't think of any language that
  25. unambiguously illustrates ADT behaviour in the export interface.
  26. Dean Jerding 
  27. (dfj@cc.gatech.edu)
  28. (ccsupdj@prism.gatech.edu)
  29.