Re: Other programming languages (Was: Command line globber/tokenizer library for C?)

From	Michael S <already5chosen@yahoo.com>
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Subject	Re: Other programming languages (Was: Command line globber/tokenizer library for C?)
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On Fri, 13 Sep 2024 01:37:08 -0000 (UTC)
Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:

> On Thu, 12 Sep 2024 18:50:11 -0400, James Kuyper wrote:
> 
> > On 9/12/24 18:32, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:  
> >>
> >> On Thu, 12 Sep 2024 17:40:17 +0200, Janis Papanagnou wrote:
> >>   
> >>> A lot of early C++ programs I've seen were just, umm, "enhanced"
> >>> "C" programs.  
> >> 
> >> Given that C++ makes “virtual” optional instead of standard
> >> behaviour, I’d say that C++ is in fact designed to be used that
> >> way.  
> > 
> > Like many other aspects of C++, that was dictated by a necessity of
> > remaining a certain minimum level of backwards compatibility with
> > existing C code.  
> 
> No it wasn’t. OO was an entirely new feature, with no counterpart in
> C, so there was nothing to maintain “backwards compatibility” with.

Agreed.
Method syntax was entirely new with no backward compatibility
restrictions. 
BTW, in these sort of discussion I'd rather avoid in-concrete words,
like "OO".

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  Re: Command line globber/tokenizer library for C? Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2024-09-10 20:58 +0000
    Re: Command line globber/tokenizer library for C? Keith Thompson <Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com> - 2024-09-10 14:12 -0700
  Re: Command line globber/tokenizer library for C? Janis Papanagnou <janis_papanagnou+ng@hotmail.com> - 2024-09-10 23:05 +0200
    Re: Command line globber/tokenizer library for C? ted@loft.tnolan.com (Ted Nolan <tednolan>) - 2024-09-10 22:11 +0000
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    Re: Command line globber/tokenizer library for C? ted@loft.tnolan.com (Ted Nolan <tednolan>) - 2024-09-10 22:13 +0000
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