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

On 01/10/2024 15:58, John Ames wrote:

On Tue, 1 Oct 2024 13:43:31 +0100
The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> wrote:
 

You can do that in straight C using one file per object and the
static keyword.
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All that C++ gives you is a syntactical way to describe what you are
doing.
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And frankly I find the syntax utterly confusing

 Yup - as I said, C++ is just C with OOP features awkwardly bolted onto
it. Not a good example at *all.*
 

Well there ya go.
I have to sometimes use those features if I am incorporating a C++ library, but I dont really like it
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