From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Mar 6 20:17:54 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from avocet.prod.itd.earthlink.net (avocet.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.50]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 09D4D37B416 for ; Wed, 6 Mar 2002 20:17:28 -0800 (PST) Received: from pool0003.cvx22-bradley.dialup.earthlink.net ([209.179.198.3] helo=mindspring.com) by avocet.prod.itd.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 16ipKn-00022s-00; Wed, 06 Mar 2002 20:16:53 -0800 Message-ID: <3C86E99E.DA1C68AD@mindspring.com> Date: Wed, 06 Mar 2002 20:16:30 -0800 From: Terry Lambert X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en]C-CCK-MCD {Sony} (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: hawkeyd@visi.com Cc: David O'Brien , bts@babbleon.org, Diane Bruce , Mike Meyer , freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: C vs C++ References: <20020305164731.530B5BA03_i8k.babbleon.org@ns.sol.net> <200203061219.g26CJEJ61813@sheol.localdomain> <20020306191709.A55297@dragon.nuxi.com> <20020306215305.A64016@sheol.localdomain> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 D J Hawkey Jr wrote: > Second, you're not addressing my comments at all. I maintain that the > creators of C++ should have either created yet another OOPL, or advocated > any of the existing ones. Taking a procedural language, particularly one > as accepted and popular as C, and wreaking havoc on it (IMHO) to produce > another, was a gross mis-step. I guess I won't wax nostalgic about the merits of RATFOR... -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message