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From: dmg@ssc-vax.UUCP (David Geary)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.lisp,comp.lang.modula2,comp.lang.prolog,comp.lang.smalltalk
Subject: C++ vs. Other OOLs
Message-ID: <2602@ssc-vax.UUCP>
Date: 14 Apr 89 18:21:44 GMT
Organization: Boeing Aerospace Corp., Seattle WA
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  Although I am quite experienced in C, I have never written one line of code
in C++ (or any other ool), although I expect that to change in the near future.
  Anyway, I am very interested in object oriented programming, and C++.  
I would like to start a discussion concerning C++ and ool's.  I would 
like to see comparisons of C++ vs. other object oriented languages such as:

C++ vs. Modula2
C++ vs. Lisp
C++ vs. SmallTalk
C++ vs. Prolog
C++ vs. Objective C

  I'd like to know how C++ stacks up against the others as far as:

It's degree of "object-orientedness"
Speed and portability.

  It seems to me that C++ is not as "object-oriented" as Lisp, SmallTalk, 
and the like, but then again, realize that I don't know what I'm talking 
about ;-).  Also, it seems that C++ would be more efficient, and more 
easily portable than the "others", but, then again ...
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~ David Geary, Boeing Aerospace, Seattle                 ~ 
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