2. C with Classes
Specialization is for insects.
– R.A.Heinlein
C++’s immediate predecessor, C with Classes — key design principles — classes — run-time and space efficiency — the linkage model — static (strong) type checking — why C? — syntax problems — derived classes — living without virtual functions and templates — access-control mechanisms — constructors and destructors — my work environment.
2.1 The Birth of C with Classes
The work on what eventually became C++ started with an attempt to analyze the UNIX kernel to determine how it could be distributed over a network of computers connected by a local area network. This work started in April 1979 in the Computing Science Research Center of Bell Laboratories in Murray Hill, New Jersey. Two ...
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