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From: gnu@hoptoad.uucp (John Gilmore)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Subject: Re: "Classes are the central concept in C++"
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Date: 2 Jun 89 07:35:22 GMT
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ark@alice.UUCP (Andrew Koenig) wrote:
> Classes are the central concept in C++; it is important to
> make them as easy to use as possible.

My initial reaction is that this is not true.  As rebuttal:  What
is the "central concept" in C?  None immediately springs to mind; there
are a bunch of concepts that all contribute.  C++ inherits 99% of those
concepts from C; does the existence of classes render the rest
inconsequential?

Classes are certainly the most central NEW thing in C++ (as opposed to C);
but that is very different.
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