OOP, Was: C considered harmful: was Debian attacker may have used new exploit

[Greg Franks]

>>>>> "Peter" == Peter L Peres <plp-ysDPMY98cNQDDBjDh4tngg at public.gmane.org> writes:

    Peter> On Thu, 4 Dec 2003, Greg Franks wrote:

    >> >>>>> "Marcus" == Marcus Brubaker <marcus.brubaker-H217xnMUJC0sA/PxXw9srA at public.gmane.org>
    >> writes:
    Marcus> To each their own opinion but if you want to do OOP then
    Marcus> there really isn't a better language out there than Java.
    >>  You forgot Smalltalk.  Everything is an object, even integers.

    Peter> Yes, and the processing overhead for an addition is about
    Peter> the same as for a square root extraction.

You're thinking of an old smalltalk (or bad implementation
perhaps...).  The interpreter should do somthing like...

if ( x & 8000000 ) {
   its an integer...
} else {
   its an object...
}

Otoh, sqrt() isn't as pokey as it used to be either :-)
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