Subject: Re: [linux-audio-dev] OSC vs MIDI
From: Steve Harris (S.W.Harris_AT_ecs.soton.ac.uk)
Date: Wed Sep 01 2004 - 11:49:36 EEST
On Tue, Aug 31, 2004 at 01:15:24 -0400, Pete Bessman wrote:
> 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?)
Obejctive C is OK, it uses messages (smalltalk style) rather than method
calls, and they have some performance limitations, but the class stuff is
all sane.
- Steve
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