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by jhgb 1460 days ago
> and IMO it's very biased towards virtual methods to solve polymorphism.

Is it? These days I'd expect C++ to be very biased towards using templates for polymorphism. After all, templates are a thing that C++ provides with functionality that other languages often lack, whereas in the field of virtual methods/"dynamic dispatch OOP" C++ severely lags behind other languages. Choosing between two features of a language and using exactly the one that is worse in comparison to your competition feels wrong to me.
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FpUser 1460 days ago
I do not think C++ "lags severely in the field of virtual methods". I use both OOP and template based polymorphism depending on particular needs and see no significant problems in either.
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jhgb 1460 days ago
C++ can't do things today that Smalltalk and CLOS were able to do in the 1980s already; how is it not lagging behind in OOP? Hell, companies like Trolltech had to extend C++ for their own purposes to provide just a subset of the extra features (relative to standard C++) that had already been available in environments like Smalltalk or CLOS.
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