Topic: Has C++ had its day?


Author: jim.fleming@bytes.com (Jim Fleming)
Date: 1995/07/04
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In article <3tb8d5$bsb@Starbase.NeoSoft.COM>, dweller@Starbase.NeoSoft.COM
says...
>
>In article <jypltj@bmtech.demon.co.uk>,
>Scott Wheeler  <scottw@bmtech.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>>In Article <3t1j0h$4b4@Starbase.NeoSoft.COM> David Weller writes:
>>>      4.  There's a bit of irony (at least in the C++ domain) that
>>>          the C++ Booch Components are used as an example of
>>>          "industrial" MI (see Bjarne's "D&E" book, pg 271), yet
>>>          the components no longer have MI (they were "designed
>>>          out" to improve flexibility).
>>
>>Could you elaborate please?
>>
>See an earlier reply I made (on July 3rd).  To summarize, the current
>C++ Booch Components no longer use miltiple inheritance.  Instead,
>there is much better use of abstract classes, templates, and
>single inheritance (although I hasten to add that there's not even a
>lot of inheritance in the latest release).
>
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Have you looked at the proposed ANSI C++ Class Library?

What do you think of the use of inheritance in that library...:)

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