Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!feeder.erje.net!1.eu.feeder.erje.net!news.swapon.de!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!mx02.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Keith Thompson Newsgroups: comp.lang.c Subject: Re: Objects in C Date: Sun, 19 Apr 2015 07:55:49 -0700 Organization: None to speak of Lines: 24 Message-ID: <87d230p3pm.fsf@kst-u.example.com> References: <14aac167-b724-458d-80f2-cc7a300e1ff3@googlegroups.com> <87twwdoy91.fsf@kst-u.example.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: mx02.eternal-september.org; posting-host="9be37d943435275679235b07c7947eef"; logging-data="728"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX18+Fv00AtfzV+ey1oxVCVUs" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:ASjttb5sG4+JH7qd0uCvmy845aU= sha1:0qF7/zj1pQS6nvP4YDMfCbpi1ks= Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.c:60416 August Karlstrom writes: > On 2015-04-19 00:41, Keith Thompson wrote: >> David Kleinecke writes: >>> After all these years uncertainty still reigns about what >>> object-oriented computing is all about. I have my own opinions >>> and this groups seems like a good place to present my techniques >>> and, perhaps, get some useful feedback. >>> >>> I consider objects a good way to organize processes. I also >>> prefer to code in C. By C I mean 1990 ANSI C. >> >> What's wrong with the later standards? > > The curse of backward compatibility which makes a language grow and grow. That wasn't meant to be a general question about what's wrong with C99 and C11 (that's way too big a topic, or perhaps one for its own thread). I was specifically asking about David Kleinecke's objections. -- Keith Thompson (The_Other_Keith) kst-u@mib.org Working, but not speaking, for JetHead Development, Inc. "We must do something. This is something. Therefore, we must do this." -- Antony Jay and Jonathan Lynn, "Yes Minister"