Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site watcgl.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!watnot!watcgl!mwherman From: mwherman@watcgl.UUCP (Michael W. Herman) Newsgroups: net.lang.c Subject: Re: Proposal to add modules to C with a simple extension. Message-ID: <1742@watcgl.UUCP> Date: Sun, 5-May-85 08:02:44 EDT Article-I.D.: watcgl.1742 Posted: Sun May 5 08:02:44 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 5-May-85 23:35:00 EDT References: <224@sdcc13.UUCP> Organization: Computer Graphics Laboratory, U of Waterloo, Ontario Lines: 13 Bascially what you're asking for has already been incorporated into a language called C++ developed by Bjarne Stroustrup at Bell Labs. References: 1. B. Stroustrup, "Classes: An Abstract Data Type Facility for the C Language", ACM-SIGPLAN Notices, 17, No. 1 (January 1982), pp.42-52. 2. B. Stroustrup, "Adding Classes to C: An Exercise in Language Evolution", Software Practice and Experience, 13 (1983), pp. 139-61. 3. B. Stroustrup, "Data Abstraction in C", AT&T BLTJ, 63, No. 8 (October 1984), pp. 1701-32.