Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: C++ and other OOP Langs
Message-ID: <1989Apr18.005410.11032@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <615@marob.MASA.COM> <1007@quintus.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 18 Apr 89 00:54:10 GMT

In article <1007@quintus.UUCP> ok@quintus.UUCP (Richard A. O'Keefe) writes:
>>like to see comparisons of C++ vs. other object oriented languages such as...
>
>It is stretching things to call Modula 2 an object-oriented language...
>It is downright false to call Prolog an object-oriented language...

As Bjarne pointed out in one of his papers, "object oriented" is like "RISC"
or "structured":  in marketingspeak, it means "good", so it gets applied to
all sorts of inappropriate or downright silly things.  (Ada was the example
he used.)
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