Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!apple!leech
From: leech@Apple.COM (Jonathan Patrick Leech)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Subject: Re: "Classes are the central concept in C++"
Message-ID: <32204@apple.Apple.COM>
Date: 2 Jun 89 16:25:08 GMT
References: <7435@hoptoad.uucp> <9395@alice.UUCP> <7508@hoptoad.uucp>
Organization: Apple Computer Inc, Cupertino, CA
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In article <7508@hoptoad.uucp> gnu@hoptoad.uucp (John Gilmore) writes:
>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.
>...
>Classes are certainly the most central NEW thing in C++ (as opposed to C);
>but that is very different.

	If someone asks me why I would use C++ instead of C, the answer
is the class mechanism. In this sense, I agree that classes are what C++
is all about. The other stuff is nice but not enough motivation.

    Jon Leech (leech@apple.com)
    Apple Integrated Systems
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