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From: djones@megatest.UUCP (Dave Jones)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: C++ vs. Pascal. You want proof?
Message-ID: <268@goofy.megatest.UUCP>
Date: 16 Feb 88 02:20:43 GMT
References: <11010016@hpfcdc.HP.COM>
Organization: Megatest Corporation, San Jose, Ca
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in article <11010016@hpfcdc.HP.COM>, bayes@hpfcdc.HP.COM (Scott Bayes) says:
> 
>>Actually, on the type-checking and modularity fronts, C++ is far and
>>away superior to Pascal.  Especially the modularity part.  
>>In capitol letters.
>>...
> 
> Could you provide some support for this statement? It's hard to believe
> without some specifics, though it may well be true.
> 
> Scott:=Bayes
> bayes@hpfclw

He left out the "You can believe me because I'm always right, and I never
lie" part.  Unintentional oversight, no doubt.

Skeptical huh?  Okay, just a taste of what you have in store for you
in C++ land:

Like most commerical Pascal implementations, C++ has separate compilation,
A.K.A. "Units", and static strong type-checking.  But it also offers 
language support for these most useful aids to modularity:

	.  Explicit type-conversion (for "generic" programming)
	.  Object-programming ("classes")
	.  Virtual functions (for procedural abstraction)
	.  Implicit initialization and cleanup of objects
	.  Algorithmic initialization of static objects
	.  Encapsulation
	.  Inheritance (next release: multiple inheritance)
	.  In-line procedure calls

Some of these buzz-phrases may be new to you.  Grab a copy of Bjourne
Stroustrup's book on C++. (He's the creator of the language.) 
Like they say, "You'll be glad you did."


		-- Dave J.