Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!usc!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!igor!rutabaga!jls From: jls@rutabaga.Rational.COM (Jim Showalter) Newsgroups: comp.object Subject: Re: Which OOPL is the best? Message-ID: Date: 26 Mar 91 03:09:05 GMT References: <1991Mar25.045952.813@agate.berkeley.edu> Sender: news@Rational.COM Lines: 27 >"Learn Smalltalk. It is the language from which C++ is based upon." Funny--most Smalltalk people blast C++ for NOT being a "pure" OO language like Smalltalk. I don't think C++ is based on Smalltalk other than in philosophy. >"Learn CLOS, it is the most powerful OOPL you will ever know." It is also the rarest. >"Learn Eiffel, it is the *ONLY* other OOPL (besides C++) used in the > real world. The others are all toy languages." Eiffel is rarely used in the real world, and the percentage relative to C++ grows less rapidly. My advice? Stick with C++. Much as it makes me cringe from an aesthetic standpoint, I believe C++ will be the dominant OO language for the next decade. Definite job security. P.S. You never said what it was about C++ that frustrated you. -- ***** DISCLAIMER: The opinions expressed herein are my own. Duh. Like you'd ever be able to find a company (or, for that matter, very many people) with opinions like mine. -- "When I want your opinion, I'll read it in your entrails."