Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++ Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!dgp.toronto.edu!flaps From: flaps@dgp.toronto.edu (Alan J Rosenthal) Subject: Re: Object-oriented techniques in C Message-ID: <8806021529.AA04925@explorer.dgp.toronto.edu> Organization: University of Toronto References: <384@otc.oz> <576@goofy.megatest.UUCP> Distribution: comp Date: Thu, 2 Jun 88 10:09:39 EDT In article <576@goofy.megatest.UUCP> djones@megatest.UUCP (Dave Jones) writes: >I don't think your assembly language *reductio ad absurbum* holds water. >With C, it is usually possible to write machine-independant code. Not >so with assembler. This is a red herring. If there was only one kind of machine and operating system ever invented by the human race, so that the whole concept of portability had never been thought of, it would still be the case that few people would prefer assembly language to high level languages. The original argument stands. Saying that you can do whatever you can in C++ in C is no more disparaging of C++ than saying that you can do whatever you can in C in assembler is of C. ajr -- - Any questions? - Well, I thought I had some questions, but they turned out to be a trigraph.