From: Rick DeNatale <rick.denatale@...>
Date: 2009-03-10T06:02:01+09:00
Subject: Re: OO style tutorials?

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On Sun, Mar 8, 2009 at 1:34 PM, Leo <minilith@gmail.com> wrote:

> > The GoF book has strong influences from Smalltalk and Java.  C++ OO is a
> > completely different beast.
>
> He probably assumed a strong c++ influence because many/most examples
> are in c++. IIRC (but I could be wrong of course) the book (1994)
> doesn't mention Java (1996).
>
> No, I didn't assume, I knew because I know all four authors (or knew, since
John V. is no longer with us). And there's not nearly as much Smalltalk
influence as there should be, Ralph Johnson admitted as much when he
autographed my copy.

As for not using things like templates etc. in C++, I don't know whether or
not those features were commonly available if at all when the book was
written.


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