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From: gupta@asgb.UUCP (Yogesh K Gupta)
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Subject: Re: Proposal to add modules to C with a simple extension.
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Date: Wed, 8-May-85 12:18:01 EDT
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> Bascially what you're asking for has already been incorporated into
> a language called C++ developed by Bjarne Stroustrup at Bell Labs.
> 
> References:
> ... [ References to three papers by B. Stroustrup ]
>

    The original posting suggested adding modules to C, thus departing
    from the language's concept that a "file" is a "module".  C++, as
    described in the papers referred, does provide data abastraction but
    does not provide the concept of a module.  Also, C++ is not available.

Yogesh Gupta
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