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- From: steve@taumet.com (Steve Clamage)
- Subject: Re: Criticisms Wanted
- Message-ID: <1992Nov10.212718.2852@taumet.com>
- Organization: TauMetric Corporation
- References: <1992Nov7.113444.3225@netcom.com> <BxDDJy.9GC@slipknot.rain.com> <1992Nov8.170309.12301@cc.gatech.edu> <BxGu0p.D3o@slipknot.rain.com>
- Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 21:27:18 GMT
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- robert@slipknot.rain.com (Robert Reed) writes:
-
- |But the
- |point is that C++ has been reputed to be a language that finally makes the
- |concept of "software components" realizable. The argument goes that if you
- |still have to examine the internal workings of component classes to determine
- |how to best use them, then their value as components has been greatly
- |diminished.
-
- I don't see how this is different in C++ than in any other programming
- language. You have an interface declaration and (one hopes) some
- documentation, but how do you know whether the actual component works
- as claimed?
- --
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- Steve Clamage, TauMetric Corp, steve@taumet.com
- Vice Chair, ANSI C++ Committee, X3J16
-