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From: jima@hplsla.HP.COM (              Jim Adcock)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Subject: Re: Programming Pardigms (Re: const, reference "this" revisited ???)
Message-ID: <6590020@hplsla.HP.COM>
Date: 29 Feb 88 21:52:45 GMT
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| What really is on my mind is that I have gotten frustrated by the
| assumption that people seem to make frequently in this group that C++
| is "Object Oriented C".  C++ does have inheritance (which is what
| distinguishes "Object Oriented" from other approaches) but it also
| has features such as overloading, casting operators
| constructors/destructors that support other paradigms.  C++ without
| inheritance would certainly be less useful, but it would still be a
| significant extension of C.

Well, I don't know.  It seems like half the people who haven't programmed
in C++ claim it ISN'T Object-Oriented because of ABC, and the other half
who haven't programmed in C++ claim it IS Object-Oriented because of XYZ, 
so MAYBE C++ is hitting the right balance :-)

Too bad these people never seem to get around to sitting down and TRYING c++.

I know a lot of people who spent the last couple years writing code in "pure"
Objective-C, and probably less than 5% of the code is REALLY "Object-Oriented."

So it seems to me the biggest c++ wins, in order are:

1) type checking
2) modular design
3) inheritance
4) dynamic binding
5) operator overloading
6) etc.
....