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Re: The Darker Side of C++ (forwarded)

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From: Bjorn S. Fjeld Pettersen
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 19:18
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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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