Re: Why Does Everyone Insist On Using Structs for Everything?!

[Marc Hernandez <marc@ias.jb.com>]

On Fri, 17 Mar 2000, Mike Main wrote:

> Why doesn't anyone ever use C++ for what it's good for?  Object oriented
> programming?  Everyone always seem to use structs.  Giving everything acess
> to encaspulated members makes me want to scream!  AAAAARRRGGGGHHH!!!!  Sorry
> for the rant I had to get that off my chest :).

	Learning takes time.  C++ is a multiparadigm language that
supports procedural[1], object and generic programming <templates>.  I
personally went through them in that order with a couple/few years at
each. 
	I would recommend to everyone to keep learning new languages or
anything else that is new.  For me that is currently Scheme and how to
make fast abstract rendering toolkits (can use D3D or OpenGL).  Off to C++
GUI programming :-) (although I am making it bindable to Perl, Python,
Scheme (via GUILE) and Java).  And yes I use classes, templates,
exceptions, const, operator overloading, function overloading, stl
(although I suppose that is the C++ standard library now). 
	
--
Marc Hernandez
[1] Purposefully did not put functional programming as that has a very
different meaning.

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