Author: Russell Reagan
Date: 15:45:31 02/13/04
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On February 13, 2004 at 17:27:31, Anthony Cozzie wrote: >IMHO, if you have public member variables it is no longer a theoretical issue >but a personal preference. None of my classes have public member variables. >I am not a huge fan of C++, because I think C++ attempts to take a low level >language and transform it into a high level language with a few keywords and the >STL. Having programmed in a true high level language (ML), I just don't find >C++ very attractive. That was the point of C++, to bridge that gap, because that was a need when there was a world full of C programmers and corporate projects were getting larger and larger. It wouldn't have caught on to the degree it did if it wouldn't have been very similar to C, or maybe even if it wasn't a superset of C. I like C++ because I can basically program like I did in C, but I can put some things out of my mind by using classes. I can create a class to complain if something goes wrong, and I can turn those internal checks off in a release build so there is negligible overhead. This makes things more mentally managable.
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