Subject: Re: [linux-audio-dev] OSC vs MIDI
From: Pete Bessman (ninjadroid_AT_gazuga.net)
Date: Tue Aug 31 2004 - 20:15:24 EEST
At Tue, 31 Aug 2004 16:02:43 +0100,
Steve Harris wrote:
>
> I like the OO-in-C style of programming, its pretty much the best of both
> worlds IMHO. C syntax, but no C++ 'features'.
Seriously. You can easily do Real OOP in C; the only thing it lacks
is syntactic sugar. I wish there was a real C++, as in a C that has
just had a few minor, incremental improvements made to it. C++ may
have a lot in common with C in a technical sense, but the mentality it
represents is almost completely orthogonal. (And yes, you can write C
style in C++, but then, why not just use C?)
The D programming language looks very promising in this regard, but
its newsgroup faces a daily battle with people who seem more
interested in creating a religion than a tool. Now that I think about
it, that struggle seems to be a recurring theme in the world of
programming languages at large.
--Pete
"Nothing great was ever achieved by being realistic!" --Tom Venuto
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