Can anyone recomend a good intoduction to C...

[Alex Martelli]

"Courageous" <jkraska1 at san.rr.com> wrote in message
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> >All this bloat added to C++ was not necessary for making an OO language.
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> Echo that. What's "object oriented" about templates?
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> A: NOTHING.

True.  They're just the best programming concept to hit
statically-typed languages since sliced bread, and happen
to work with superb sinergy with OO and overloading, but
that doesn't make them 'object-oriented' -- just GREAT.

There's a lot of parallelism between generic programming
(via templates in a statically-typed language) and the
way one designs and codes in Python (or other dynamically
typed languages with polymorphism, I guess), except of
course that in the the static case everything really
interesting happens at compile-time (which has pluses
_and_ minuses).


Alex