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Article #949Re: overloading vs. virtual functions
From: Chip Salzenberg
Date: Wed, 27 Feb 1991 22:34
Date: Wed, 27 Feb 1991 22:34
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According to dsouza@optima.cad.mcc.com (Desmond Dsouza): >In discussing programming language features, "orthogonal" has a more >specific meaning. Here is one (from M. Jazayeri, "Programming Language >Concepts", p.15) : > > The principle of 'orthogonality': language features can be > composed in a free and uniform manner with predictable effects > and without limitations. > >i.e. any meaningful composition of language constructs should be allowed. I cannot accept this definition. It is too broad for useful dialogue. Unless, of course, the statement ``No currently existing computer language is orthogonal'' is useful dialogue. :-) -- Chip Salzenberg at Teltronics/TCT <chip@tct.uucp>, <uunet!pdn!tct!chip> "It's not a security hole, it's a SECURITY ABYSS." -- Christoph Splittgerber (with reference to the upage bug in Interactive UNIX and Everex ESIX)
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!uunet!seismo!dimacs.rutgers.edu!mips!daver!tscs!tct!chip From: chip@tct.uucp (Chip Salzenberg) Newsgroups: comp.std.c++ Subject: Re: overloading vs. virtual functions Message-ID: <27CC33DC.5222@tct.uucp> Date: 27 Feb 91 22:34:03 GMT References: <1991Feb19.051123.5198@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca> <27C2D4B8.3AD3@tct.uucp> <DSOUZA.91Feb24174648@optima.cad.mcc.com> Organization: Teltronics/TCT, Sarasota, FL Lines: 18