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From: new@udel.EDU (Darren New)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Subject: Re: C++ vs. Other OOLs
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Date: 21 Apr 89 20:03:48 GMT
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In article <282@acates.UUCP> dan@acates.UUCP (Dan Ford) writes:
>In article <2602@ssc-vax.UUCP> dmg@ssc-vax.UUCP (David Geary) writes:
>>I would like to see comparisons of C++ vs. other object oriented languages
>>such as:
>>C++ vs. Modula2
>> ... [deleted]
>I would add to the list Eiffel -- see comp.lang.eiffel.
>
>Dan Ford    uunet!acates!dan

I would remove Modula-2 from the list. The only vaguely
OO-like construct it has is exporting pointers to types
that the user cannot access. This is like saying
ANSI C is OO because you can cast (struct foo *)
to (void *) and back again. Modula-2 has none
of the OO advantages at all. -- Darren