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Date: 29 Sep 2024 20:55:59 GMT
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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.