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- From: cshaver@informix.com (Craig Shaver)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
- Subject: Re: feedback wanted on appropriate OOPL
- Message-ID: <1992Dec29.011354.5929@informix.com>
- Date: 29 Dec 92 01:13:54 GMT
- References: <92358.192930COP80196@UCF1VM.BITNET> <1992Dec28.173620.14793@microsoft.com>
- Sender: news@informix.com (Usenet News)
- Organization: Informix Software, Inc.
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- In article <1992Dec28.173620.14793@microsoft.com> jimad@microsoft.com (Jim Adcock) writes:
- >In article <92358.192930COP80196@UCF1VM.BITNET> Bill Laird <COP80196@UCF1VM.BITNET> writes:
- ..... deleted .....
- >
- >Three points from my perspective:
- >
- >1) I have known many OO programmers coming from a Smalltalk background
- >into C++. I found them very difficult to work with, because they aways
- >tend towards trying to use a Smalltalk approach to C++, and C++ is not
- >Smalltalk, nor vice versa. Good programming technique is not the same
- >between the two languages.
- >
- >2) Having just done an interview with a interview candidate who has
- >an MS in CS, who claimed C/C++ as a primary language, but who couldn't
- >program simple problems in a straight-forward manner, using style
- >appropriate for the C/C++ languages, I must again express frustration
- ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
-
- I have used both Smalltalk and C++ and do not agree with your conclusions
- without concrete evidence to the contrary. Could you please elaborate
- on what style is appropriate for c/c++? It would be a help to have
- some references to material that clarifies the differences in OO style.
-
- >at CS departments who don't teach students the skills they need to
- >get a job. C is the mainstream programming language for the software
- >industry. C++ is the mainstream OO programming language for the
- >software industry. Non-mainstream languages are fine for PhD candidates
- >who plan to remain in acedemia.
-
- I thought COBOL was the mainstream language? Could you support this
- set of statements with some examples? Evidence?
-
- >
- >3) Neither 1) nor 2) above is as important as having students who
- >know and can perform the necessary applied mathematics.
-
- This is a very broad statement. Could you give an example please?
-
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