Apache resigns from the Java Community Process executive committee
Apache resigns from the Java Community Process executive committee
Posted Dec 25, 2010 4:46 UTC (Sat) by foom (subscriber, #14868)In reply to: Apache resigns from the Java Community Process executive committee by paulj
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> To be fair, non-virtual methods are, we now know, extremely dangerous [...]. That C++ even allows them is perhaps a historical curiosity.
Absolutely not a historical curiosity! I can't imagine using a C++-like language that didn't allow non-virtual members. Being able to do OOP with *zero* runtime overhead is a killer feature!
There's certainly place in the world for languages like Python too (which I do like, despite its horrific slowness), but C++ without non-virtual methods would just be sad.