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From: budd@mist.cs.orst.edu (Tim Budd)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Subject: Re: Should C++ follow C's footsteps?
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Date: 23 Feb 89 22:58:42 GMT
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>I do agree that most people new to C++ write C programs in C++,
>but remember that OOP is a different way of THINKING about
>problems.  It takes a while to get used to.
>
Which is why I think Smalltalk or some other OO language is much better
than C++.  It is not that the language is necessarily better, but that it
is sufficiently foreign that users are forced to make a major effort in
redirecting their thinking.  Far to many bussessness are jumping on the C++
bandwagon thinking it will solve all their problems, when far too many of
their programmers will simply continue to write C programs in C++.  The
unfortunate property of C++, as with C, is that the language doesn't force,
or even encourage, you to go in any particularly constructive direction, or
to code in any particularly useful style.
In Smalltalk, at least, it is very difficult to NOT write code that is
polymorphic, reusable, etc etc.