From vsnyder@math.Jpl.Nasa.Gov Tue Mar 11 19:19:56 1997 Received: from eis-net-001.jpl.nasa.gov (eis-net-001.jpl.nasa.gov [137.78.57.19]) by dkuug.dk (8.6.12/8.6.12) with ESMTP id TAA06001 for ; Tue, 11 Mar 1997 19:19:51 +0100 Received: from math.Jpl.Nasa.Gov (math.jpl.nasa.gov [137.78.227.106]) by eis-net-001.jpl.nasa.gov (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id KAA18641 for ; Tue, 11 Mar 1997 10:19:39 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <199703111819.KAA18641@eis-net-001.jpl.nasa.gov> Received: by math.Jpl.Nasa.Gov (1.37.109.15/16.2) id AA089344282; Tue, 11 Mar 1997 10:18:02 -0800 From: Van Snyder Subject: (SC22WG5.1341) Fortran Conditional Compilation (Fwd) To: sc22wg5@dkuug.dk (SC22/WG5) Date: Tue, 11 Mar 1997 10:18:02 PST Reply-To: X-Mailer: Elm [revision: 109.14] Dave Bailey wrote: > .... I am against the whole move to > add object orientation to Fortran.... I have seen some > exceedingly obscure C++ code using the derived types and virtual > functions available in that language. It is my impression that OOP > creates a situation in which many programmers are less than sure > what is happening as their code runs.... > In practice classes are often written by less exalted staff, > and the resulting bugs can be very hard to find because so much > activity happens implicitly (constructors, destructors, type > conversion operators, etc.) Most of these objections are objections to C++, not to object- oriented programming. The direction of /data, basing its work on preliminary proposals by John Cuthbertson and Malcolm Cohen, is more similar to Ada 95. Many of the pitfalls of C++ are thereby avoided. Van Snyder