At Tue, 31 Aug 2004 16:02:43 +0100, Steve Harris wrote: > > I like the OO-in-C style of programming, its pretty much the best of both > worlds IMHO. C syntax, but no C++ 'features'.
Seriously. You can easily do Real OOP in C; the only thing it lacks is syntactic sugar. I wish there was a real C++, as in a C that has just had a few minor, incremental improvements made to it. C++ may have a lot in common with C in a technical sense, but the mentality it represents is almost completely orthogonal. (And yes, you can write C style in C++, but then, why not just use C?) The D programming language looks very promising in this regard, but its newsgroup faces a daily battle with people who seem more interested in creating a religion than a tool. Now that I think about it, that struggle seems to be a recurring theme in the world of programming languages at large. --Pete <http://www.gazuga.net> "Nothing great was ever achieved by being realistic!" --Tom Venuto
