Re: TeX and Pascal [was Re: The joy of FORTRAN]

On Sun, 29 Sep 2024 07:06:57 -0000 (UTC), Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:

On Sun, 29 Sep 2024 07:50:14 +0100, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
 

But they didn't. They tried to hack it and it was a disaster.
I hate OO.

 
But C++ isn’t really OO. It’s a kind of frankenmix of some OO-like
features in with a bunch of other random things.

Part of the problem with C++, at least in the beginning, were the books
claiming to teach the language. C++ has classes; everything has to be a
class. C++ has inheritance; Dog goes 'woof' Cat goes 'meow'. 

My edition is old but Stroustrp's book was a lot more restrained than what
most C++ programming books presented.