On Thu, May 20, 1999 at 12:47:59AM +0200, Marek Habersack wrote: > * Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho said: > > On Wed, May 19, 1999 at 03:01:12PM -0700, Aaron Van Couwenberghe wrote: > > > Polymorphism is such an obvious pillar of structured programming that I > > > can't understand how anybody could live without it. > > > > Agreed. Too bad C++ does not support parametric polymorphism too well. > > Templates come close, so the hope is not lost. > But the problem is that templates, nor exceptions or rtti (which are all > elements of MODERN C++ programming) don't work well enough on the GNU > platform...
Is that true, I have heard this agrument often, but is it true, and is it still so today ? Is there effort made to fix this ? how far are they ? I just want to be sure this is true before people start using this as argument without even checking if things still are like that. Friendly, Sven LUTHER
