Re: encapsulating code properties

[Paul Eggert]

"Joel E. Denny" <address@hidden> writes:

>> Also, if we could use C++, we could eliminate a lot of the wordiness
>> as well.  But I wouldn't favor making that transition.  There are much
>> better choices than C++.
>
> Do you have anything specific in mind?

One could make good technical arguments for Guile, Java, OCaml,
Python, Ruby, Squeak, and others (note that I've been careful to list
them alphabetically :-).  But C++ wouldn't make the long list, much
less the short one.

I'd rather not go into language-war mode at this point, though.
Unless someone has a _lot_ of high-quality time to sink into this,
I wouldn't advocate a switch.