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From: dsiegel@panix.com (David M. Siegel)
Newsgroups: comp.object,comp.lang.beta,comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.eiffel,comp.lang.python,comp.lang.sather,comp.lang.smalltalk
Subject: Re: Rapid Prototyping + statically-typed OOPLs?
Date: Sun, 23 Jul 1995 05:08:32 GMT
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References: <805548287snz@galacta.demon.co.uk> <1995Jul13.154620.4333@rcmcon.com> <Ian.Mitchell.238.000BDB95@sunderland.ac.uk> <3ue9o1$q6t@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu> <Ian.Mitchell.241.000C1C6A@sunderland.ac.uk> <denatale-2007952355030001@grail519.nando.net>
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C++'s terseness is misleading, since it derives, in large part, from
the unfortunate habit of overloading the same keyword in many
different contexts.  C does this, too, but not to the same extreme.
-dms