15 Dec
2020
15 Dec
'20
8:57 a.m.
On Dec 14, 2020, at 12:28 PM, Dave Horsfall <dave(a)horsfall.org> wrote:
On Wed, 9 Dec 2020, Bakul Shah wrote:
I liked C with classes though never had a chance to use it.
You do know there was a C-- (designed by Simon Peyton Jones &
Norman Ramsay) as a "portable assembly language" (even more
so than C) as a target for HLL compilers.
please don’t blame c++ on pascal folks.
stroustrup had nothing to do with pascal.
I certainly hope not; Pascal was meant to be a teaching language, not a production
language. As for C++, well, what can I say? It should've been called C-- ...
You wrote your algorithm in Pascal, debugged it, and
then rewrote it in your favourite language (in my case, ALGOL-W).
Now why didn't Don Knuth think of that for TeX?