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From: John Ames <commodorejohn@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: TeX and Pascal [was Re: The joy of FORTRAN]
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On Tue, 1 Oct 2024 13:43:31 +0100
The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> wrote:

> You can do that in straight C using one file per object and the
> static keyword.
> 
> All that C++ gives you is a syntactical way to describe what you are
> doing.
> 
> And frankly I find the syntax utterly confusing

Yup - as I said, C++ is just C with OOP features awkwardly bolted onto
it. Not a good example at *all.*