David O'Brien <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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.
<mike
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