From -4966370599892575774 X-Google-Thread: f78e5,f292bdd67daeb7bb X-Google-Attributes: gidf78e5,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII Path: g2news2.google.com!news3.google.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!newsfeed00.sul.t-online.de!t-online.de!newsfeed.icl.net!newsfeed.icl.net!newsfeed.fjserv.net!colt.net!peer-uk.news.demon.net!kibo.news.demon.net!news.demon.co.uk!demon!stump.algebra.com!devnull From: brangdon@cix.co.uk (Dave Harris) Newsgroups: comp.std.c++ Subject: Re: C++ Embraces Procedural Programming Over OO Programming [OT] Date: Sun, 26 Nov 2006 19:13:53 GMT Lines: 18 Sender: mail2news@demon.net Approved: fjh@cs.mu.oz.au (Fergus Henderson , moderator of comp.std.c++) Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: news.news.demon.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=unknown-8bit Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: news.demon.co.uk 1164568450 21032 158.152.254.254 (26 Nov 2006 19:14:10 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@demon.net NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 26 Nov 2006 19:14:10 +0000 (UTC) X-Original-To: std-c++@mailman.ucar.edu X-Robomod: STUMP, ichudov@algebra.com (Igor Chudov) X-MIME-Autoconverted: from 8bit to quoted-printable by mulga.csse.unimelb.edu.au id kAQJE7n4019448 X-Orig-X-Trace: individual.net M9LE/CRt4x6v8jIPFrye2goh4xWDeWDxvBgUv2+QrCdsPlE/0= X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at csse.unimelb.edu.au X-Reply-To: brangdon@cix.co.uk X-Originating-IP: 130.133.1.2 X-Received: (from fjh@localhost) by mulga.csse.unimelb.edu.au (8.13.6+Sun/8.13.6/Submit) id kAQJDr0p019356; Mon, 27 Nov 2006 06:13:53 +1100 (EST) X-Path: comp-std-cpp-robomod!not-for-mail X-Delivered-To: std-c++@mailman.ucar.edu X-Authentication-Warning: mulga.csse.unimelb.edu.au: fjh set sender to devnull@stump.algebra.com using -f X-Newsgroups: comp.std.c++ Xref: g2news2.google.com comp.std.c++:4767 giecrilj@stegny.2a.pl ("K=F8i=B9tof =AEelechovski") wrote (abridged): > > However, the C++ standard tries to be portable and so aims at > > the highest common denominator. >=20 > Lowest, if you please. Why would it aim to be lowest? Note the word "common". If some high=20 feature is available on every platform, portability is not lost by=20 exploiting it and we gain whatever facility it provides. -- Dave Harris, Nottingham, UK. --- [ comp.std.c++ is moderated. To submit articles, try just posting with ] [ your news-reader. If that fails, use mailto:std-c++@ncar.ucar.edu ] [ --- Please see the FAQ before posting. --- ] [ FAQ: http://www.comeaucomputing.com/csc/faq.html ]