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From: ylkingsbury@watdragon.waterloo.edu (Yvonne Kingsbury)
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Subject: ICR Seminar
Keywords: C C++
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Date: 27 Oct 89 14:45:47 GMT
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ICR Brown Bag Seminar

Title:  The Useful Subset of C++

Dr. Tom Cargill
Independent Consultant

Date: Friday, November 3, 1989
Time: 12:00 noon
Place: DC 1302

Abstract

The latest version of C++ is a big complicated language.  Too big, too 
complicated.  For example, some C++ pointers are not machine addresses.
The alert programmer should know about the new address spaces.  Parts
of the language are: merely cosmetic (e.g. references), very complicated
(e.g. function overloading), unproven (e.g. pointers to members), highly
specialized (e.g. overloading casts), or all of the above (e.g. multiple
inheritance). Systems programmers writing in C and considering using C++
should adhere to a subset of C++ that takes advantage of classes but
still conforms to the relatively simple computational model of C.

Dr. Cargill is an independent consultant.  He was previously a member of
the technical staff at Bell Labs and before that was a faculty member
in computer science at the University of Waterloo.

Coffee and Cookies will be served at the Seminar - bring your own lunch.