Subj : Re: subset function for string in c++
To   : comp.programming
From : August Karlstrom
Date : Thu Sep 29 2005 03:02 pm

Randy Howard wrote:
> puzzlecracker wrote
>>>Oberon is an efficient minimalist language. The inclusion of standard
>>>string support would introduce "hidden costs" (and make the language
>>>larger). There is a module (Strings) in the standard library though that
>>>provides some basic string procedures.
>>>
>>>
>>>August
>>
>>C'mon people- embrace the reality. Oberon is the next language to
>>become obsolete 
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> 
> I dunno.  My money is on Befunge.
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>>The very inception and aims of the language had not fulfilled its
>>prophesies, 
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> Sounds EXACTLY like C++, and a host of other languages of 
> varying degrees of popularity.
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>>nor solved any real-world problems. 
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> Dunno about that one, not being an Oberon person.
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>>Its lack of
>>inheritance, dynamic memory, templates virtual tables, polymorphism,
>>support for distributive and internet programming as well as scripting,
>>pattern matching and nonexistent support for regular expression, 
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> 
> You may or may not be aware that there are a lot of very, very 
> popular languages that are missing one or more of the above.

puzzlecracker is a troll. Please don't feed it, ignore it.


August

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