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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!news.kei.com!news.mathworks.com!tank.news.pipex.net!pipex!warwick!yama.mcc.ac.uk!yama.mcc!bevan From: bevan@cs.man.ac.uk (Stephen J Bevan) Newsgroups: misc.jobs.offered,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.c-cat,comp.object,comp.lang.eiffel,alt.syntax.tactical,comp.lang.misc,comp.unix.bsd.386bsd.misc Subject: Re: Beginner to C/C++ looking for some good books Followup-To: comp.lang.c++ Date: 24 Aug 1995 10:02:20 GMT Organization: Department of Computer Science; University of Manchester Lines: 12 Message-ID: <BEVAN.95Aug24110220@manatee.cs.man.ac.uk> References: <40b4i2$egf@ixnews5.ix.netcom.com> <brockmanDDLJDL.2IJ@netcom.com> <41alha$b1g@cisunix1.dfci.harvard.edu> <DDowtJ.KL6@research.att.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: manatee.cs.man.ac.uk In-reply-to: ark@research.att.com's message of Tue, 22 Aug 1995 02:12:55 GMT Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au misc.jobs.offered:197336 comp.lang.c:111101 comp.lang.c++:121622 comp.object:31021 comp.lang.eiffel:9029 alt.syntax.tactical:928 comp.lang.misc:17157 comp.unix.bsd.386bsd.misc:144 In article <DDowtJ.KL6@research.att.com> ark@research.att.com (Andrew Koenig) writes: C++ is not philosophically unsound. It is a consistent expression of the viewpoint that C programmers should not be forced to discard their existing code and knowledge in order to be able to program in a more abstract style. Agreed, but they wouldn't need to discard their existing code if they moved to another language would they? Couldn't they just link against the C object files? Since this doesn't have much to do with most of the groups listed, I've redirected followups to comp.lang.c++.