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Conference turris::languages

Title:	Languages
Notice:	Speaking In Tongues
Moderator:	TLE::TOKLAS::FELDMAN

Created:	Sat Jan 25 1986
Last Modified:	Wed May 21 1997
Last Successful Update:	Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:	394
Total number of notes:	2683

367.0. "C+@" by ESBS01::WATSON (Arm yourself bomb) Fri Oct 29 1993 11:30

    Has anyone heard of C+@ (cat) ?
    
    I believe its a `new' C variant from Dennis Ritchie et'al at Bell Labs.
    
    
    	Rik Watson.
    
    
    Take without permission from Turris::TLE_Trips note 189.0
    
    ``Dennis described a new C which cleans up some problems and
    adds a couple of C++ features (like class) but has none of the
    under-the-cover implicit activity (like constructors).  I asked him if
    it was a candidate for the new ANSI C which is just now getting
    underway in X3J.  He nodded thoughtfully.  Plauger hinted at this
    development in an article that appeared last month.  I am not sure if
    I am hearing sane voices of caution or old timers hanging on to their
    beloved C.  Of course, C++ means cfront to them, which is not nice.  I
    did not ask about garbage collection.''

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367.1	Have seen discussion on the Internet	TLE::SAVAGE		`Fri Oct 29 1993 11:49`	8
	There's been some (not much) discussion of it in the newsgroup, comp.lang.c++ I didn't save any of the articles, but what I recall from memory is that it will have classes but not multiple inheritance. To questions that it might be a follow on to C++, the newsgroup's Bell Lab participants have responded with flat denials.
367.2	DDJ	AIAG::PRAKASH	Mayank Prakash, Intelligent Information Applications Development Group.	`Mon Nov 01 1993 11:16`	5
	Also see the latest issue of Dr. Dobbs Journal. This is a special issue on OO Languages, and has a lengthy article on C+@. -mayank.
367.3	Topic of 26 Jan IEEE meeting	TLE::SAVAGE		`Thu Dec 23 1993 14:13`	46
	Newsgroups: comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.objective-c, comp.lang.smalltalk,comp.lang.oberon,comp.lang.eiffel From: [email protected] (Bob Baker) Subject: IEEE meeting on C+@ Sender: [email protected] Organization: Advanced Computer Application Center, Argonne National Laboratory Date: Wed, 22 Dec 1993 18:32:51 GMT I ran across an announcement which I thought USENET readers might be interested. Here is a paraphrased version: Meeting of the IEEE Computer Society (Chicago Chapter) TOPIC: The C+@ Programming Language GUEST SPEAKER: Dr. James Vandendorpe, AT&T Bell Laboratories DATE & TIME: Wednesday, January 26, 1994, 6:30PM TO REGISTER: Call 312-236-4333 (Membership NOT required) PLACE: AT&T Bell Laboratories: Indian Hill Park - Room 1U-111 263 Shuman Blvd. Naperville, IL 60566 (1 block North of Diehl Rd.; 1 block East of Mill St.) AGENDA: 6:30PM - Social sponsored by AT&T Bell Laboratories 7:30PM - Presentation and Demonstration ABOUT THE TOPIC: C+@, pronounced "cat", is an object-oriented programming language that uniformly represents all data with a single run-time abstraction; pointers to self-described objects. Because of this abstraction, the C+@ language is both less complex and more powerful than is the C language from which it was derived. The talk overviews the C+@ language; its use of data-representation independence to enhance code reuse; its implementation of multiple, delegated inheritance; its concept of "default" methodologies; its library of reusable parts; its GUI tools; its notion of incremental compile-load-and-go; and its real-time garbage collector. ABOUT THE SPEAKER: Dr. James (Jim) Vandendorpe earned a BS degree in 1968, MS degrees in 1971 and 1973, and Ph.D. degree in 1980. Since 1981, he has been a member of the technical staff at AT&T Bell Laboratories. For the past nine years, his work has focused on object-oriented programming. He has patents in distributed fault recovery and real-time garbage collection. Jim is one of the original C+@ language designers.