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Article #1189Re: Beware of "C" Hackers -- A rebuttal to Bertrand Meyer
From: Bill Robison
Date: Sun, 24 Mar 1996 06:16
Date: Sun, 24 Mar 1996 06:16
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In article <4j2dgp$ik5@news4.digex.net>, ell@access1.digex.netc says... > >Kazimir Kylheku (c2a192@ugrad.cs.ubc.ca) wrote: [chop] > >You need the polymorphic tools of oopls to most easily exercise the oo >polymorphism you need for good modelling. > Very true, though after six years in C++ and a few with Object Pascal, I have noticed that all of my "structured" programming winds up being OO, complete with this pointers as the first parameter to procedures and func- tions. I like the approach better, and my structured code gets better the more object-oriented it gets. If you want to see some really ugly C-based polymorphism in action, look at the Motif packages. Makes you want to buy C++ compilers for everyone so that C will just go away ;-). -- Bill Robison wrobison@bdm.com robison@acm.org
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!news1.erols.com!newsmaster@erols.com From: wrobison@bdm.com (Bill Robison) Newsgroups: comp.lang.eiffel,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++,comp.object,comp.software-eng Subject: Re: Beware of "C" Hackers -- A rebuttal to Bertrand Meyer Date: 24 Mar 1996 06:16:41 GMT Organization: BDM Federal Systems, Inc. Message-ID: <4j2pc9$ff6@news7.erols.com> References: <1995Jul3.034108.4193@rcmcon.com> <653t-Df-3RB@herold.franken.de> <bksDoFwBA.Eut@netcom.com> <jmaling-2303960413010001@slwol1p47.ozemail.com.au> <4iv933INN7f2@keats.ugrad.cs.ubc.ca> <4j2dgp$ik5@news4.digex.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: as24s27.erols.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=US-ASCII X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.6