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From: raeder@uscacsc.usc.edu (Georg Raeder)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Subject: Re: co-routine concept in C++?
Message-ID: <482@uscacsc.usc.edu>
Date: 15 Oct 88 00:16:51 GMT
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Reply-To: raeder@uscacsc.UUCP (Georg Raeder)
Organization: USC ACSC, Los Angeles
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In article <1191@ssc-bee.ssc-vax.UUCP>, lee@ssc-vax.UUCP (Lee Carver) writes:
> It seems to me that an object, by
> it self, of its very nature, constitues a co-routine.

Yes, this was the original and beautiful idea of SIMULA, but for some
reason it never made it to later languages.  To quote Bertrand Meyer, in
his recent book "Object-Oriented Software Construction":
   "Tony Hoare's remark about Algol 60 - that it was such an improvement
   over most of its successors - applies to Simula as well."

Georg Raeder, USC-ACSC, Los Angeles       raeder@cse.usc.edu