From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Mar 6 19:38:59 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mired.org (dsl-64-192-6-133.telocity.com [64.192.6.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 43A2637B405 for ; Wed, 6 Mar 2002 19:38:54 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 81271 invoked by uid 100); 7 Mar 2002 03:38:43 -0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15494.57538.888210.658115@guru.mired.org> Date: Wed, 6 Mar 2002 21:38:42 -0600 To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Cc: D J Hawkey Jr , bts@babbleon.org Subject: Re: C vs C++ In-Reply-To: <20020306191709.A55297@dragon.nuxi.com> References: <20020305164731.530B5BA03_i8k.babbleon.org@ns.sol.net> <200203061219.g26CJEJ61813@sheol.localdomain> <20020306191709.A55297@dragon.nuxi.com> X-Mailer: VM 6.90 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ From: "Mike Meyer" X-Delivery-Agent: TMDA/0.48 (Python 2.2 on freebsd4) Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG David O'Brien types: > On Wed, Mar 06, 2002 at 06:19:14AM -0600, D J Hawkey Jr wrote: > > They should have left well enough alone, and advocated languages that > > were/are OOPL by concept as well as design. > *sigh* IF you say that then you really aren't thinking at at all. > Why isn't Eiffel (one of those pure OOL's) used more? BECAUSE IT ISN'T > C. Got it? No one is willing to learn a new language. Then they aren't hackers. I'm certainly willing to learn new language. I generally relish the opportunity. The trick is finding employers who are willing to let me do that, or tasks I want to do that the language in question is the proper tool. > Thus to repeat -- C++ was built on C SO IT WOULD BE ACCEPTED. That is true. C++ is as ugly as C, but has all the problems of Object Orient Languages. http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message