[linux-audio-dev] OSC vs MIDI

Steve Harris S.W.Harris at ecs.soton.ac.uk
Wed Sep 1 08:49:36 UTC 2004


On Tue, Aug 31, 2004 at 01:15:24 -0400, Pete Bessman wrote:
> At Tue, 31 Aug 2004 16:02:43 +0100,
> Steve Harris wrote:
> > 
> > I like the OO-in-C style of programming, its pretty much the best of both
> > worlds IMHO. C syntax, but no C++ 'features'.
> 
> Seriously.  You can easily do Real OOP in C; the only thing it lacks
> is syntactic sugar.  I wish there was a real C++, as in a C that has
> just had a few minor, incremental improvements made to it.  C++ may
> have a lot in common with C in a technical sense, but the mentality it
> represents is almost completely orthogonal.  (And yes, you can write C
> style in C++, but then, why not just use C?)

Obejctive C is OK, it uses messages (smalltalk style) rather than method
calls, and they have some performance limitations, but the class stuff is
all sane.

- Steve 



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