Re: Choice of languages

[bob kehs ksd org]

not to sound critical, but c dosnt even have a string datatype and there
is no way to define one...
That being said, the advanced math can be coded far easier in c++ then it
can in c because of classes...
sorry about the flame bait... just didnt see what the point about no
advanced math...
C++ can use c code but c cant really use c++ code... hmm...

Any way, I think we are getting too sidetraked from the ariginal email.
Can anyone explain why c is prefered to c++ for most unix projects? I
would like to know...

 On Wed, 19 May 1999, Nate Cull wrote:

> > C++ is fairly useless without advanced math - Modern Algebra comes to mind.  
> > Without the concepts developed in that couse, C++ is still ultimately a 
> > procedural language (at least here at Texas A&M University).  Object 
> > orientation is the core of mathematics.  Not many people in computer science 
> > have that kind of background (again, at least here at TAMU).  To expect that 
> > kind of knowledge is not (IMHO) reasonable in an open source environment.
> 
> 
> Huh?
> 
> I know nothing of advanced math (show me a vector equation and I'll show you
> some squiggly lines), but I understand OOP just fine.  At least, I thought I
> did.  Inheritance, binding, message passing... What has any of that stuff got
> to do with math?  It's completely unrelated as far as I can see.
> 
> Okay, I'm no kernel hacker, and I haven't touched C++, but I'm at least
> familiar with Java, Delphi, Jade (fairly new OOP database; you might know it,
> might not) and (broken as it is) the Visual Basic object model.  It all
> seems pretty simple and straightforward: objects are just data structures with
> attitude, they inherit methods and properties, you instantiate them with
> x = new Frob(), you go x.method(bar, baz) and test x.property ==
> value.  Then you (manually or automatically) delete the instance of x to
> reclaim memory.  Properties behave like variables, methods like
> functions.  Specific implementation details vary depending on the language,
> but that's the core of it.  If you can handle a struct in C, you can handle
> a class in C++.  
> 
> What dark secret am I missing?
> 
> Nate
> (who's admittedly way out of practice and really needs to start coding again)
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