Xref: utzoo comp.lang.c:7680 comp.lang.c++:853 Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!mcvax!unido!tub!cabo From: cabo@tub.UUCP (Carsten Bormann) Newsgroups: comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++ Subject: Re: Conformant Arrays in C Message-ID: <367@tub.UUCP> Date: 29 Feb 88 21:29:39 GMT References: <42529@sun.uucp> <7297@brl-smoke.ARPA> <676@cresswell.quintus.UUCP> <1988Feb24.165307.4938@light.uucp> <694@cresswell.quintus.UUCP> Reply-To: cabo@tub.UUCP (Carsten Bormann) Followup-To: poster Organization: Technical University of Berlin, Germany Lines: 18 Keywords: ANSI C, C++ In article <694@cresswell.quintus.UUCP> ok@quintus.UUCP (Richard A. O'Keefe) writes: () C++ is the Fortran 8X of object-oriented languages. What a piece of nonsense. [For the uninitiated: C++ is not an ``object-oriented language'', it is a language that retains the spirit of C and that among other (often more important) improvements on C facilitates object-oriented programming. If you compare the position of C++ in the development of the C language to the position of a FORTRAN dialect in the history of the FORTRAN language, you're better off using FORTRAN-77 as a reference. Somehow, the recent comp.lang.c discussions about ``D'' (e.g. about conformant arrays) seem to have picked up the spirit of FORTRAN 8X.] -- Carsten Bormann, Communications and Operating Systems Research Group Technical University of Berlin (West, of course...) Path: ...!pyramid!tub!cabo from the world, ...!unido!tub!cabo from Europe only.