fst@gtenmc.UUCP (Fariborz "Skip" Tavakkolian) (02/02/90)
In article <NEATH.90Jan30132522@solar-1.stars.flab.Fujitsu.JUNET> neath@solar-1.stars.flab.Fujitsu.JUNET writes: >In article <25C3AC55.8379@paris.ics.uci.edu> crane@paris.ics.uci.edu (Steven N. Crane) writes: > > >> Everyone's heard of the alleged benefits of object-oriented programming > >> (improvements in reusability, productivity, buglessness, maintainability, > >> etc.). >The 1988 USENIX C++ Conference Proceedings contain a paper entitled, "A C++ >Interpreter for Scheme" by Russo and Kaplan of the University of Illinois at >Urbana-Champaign. In it, they discuss their experiences in rewriting a Scheme [deleted] From the USENIX C++ conference proceedings: (SKIP) > "We found that the C++ version is more modular, more easily extended, more > reliable, and faster. Object-oriented programming is well known for its > improvement to program structure, but programming mythology suggests that > there is a performance price to be paid for this improvement. Our results > debunk this myth." [deleted] >Martin Neath (neath@dsg.ti.com) I recently talked with George Carrette the author of the ``Scheme In One Defun'' in C (SIOD) about the latest release of SIOD and the C++ implementation question came up. As of that time (about 2 or 3 weeks ago) he had not received the C++ version from the developers as they had apparently promised. I would be very interested in seening the C++ implementation of SIOD. Mr. Carrette has made SIOD in C copyrighted a la X (i.e. copy, distribute with no restrictions, and leave the copyright where it is). Therefore, it should be possible to post the C++ implementation of SIOD (or make it accessible through UUNET, etc). Since this particular article seems to have attracted the most attention as the decisive example of performance gain in using C++, it would be a great service to the C++ community to release the sources to this implementation. Perhaps the original author of SIOD and the authors of the C++ implementation care to comment. Sincerely Skip -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fariborz "Skip" Tavakkolian -of- Automated Cellular Engineering Currently consulting -at- GTE Telecom, Inc. Bothell, Wa Mail: tiny1!fst@mcgp1 -or- fst@gtenmc