<<< DISK$SATURN:[NOTES$LIBRARY]LIFE_UNIVERSE_EVERYTHING.NOTE;1 >>> -< Life, the Universe and Everything ... There is an Answer! >- ================================================================================ Note 6.66 Humour 66 of 66 BRIDGE::CSHD91TD 68 lines 27-OCT-1994 17:20 -< back to business >- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- X-Url: http://meta.stanford.edu/FTP/funny/Computers/c%2b Forwarded message: |From ... | |C+-: (pronounced "C more or less") | |Unlike C++, C+- is a subject oriented language. Each C+- class instance |known as a subject, holds hidden members, known as prejudices or |undeclared preferences, which are impervious preferences, which are |impervious to outside messages, as well as public members known as boasts |or claims. The following C operators are overridden as shown: | |> better than |< worse than |>> much better than |<< forget it |! not on your life |== comparable, other things being equal. | |C+- is a strongly typed language based on stereotyping and self-righteous |logic. The Boolean variables TRUE and FALSE (known as constants in |less realistic languages) are supplemented with CREDIBLE and DUBIOUS, which |are fuzzier than Zadeh's traditional fuzzy categories. All Booleans can be |declared with the modifiers strong and weak. Weak implication is said to |"preserve deniability" and was added at the request of the D.O.D. to ensure |compatability with future versions of Ada. Well-formed falsehoods (WFFs) |are assignment-compatible with all Booleans. What-if and why-not |interactions are aided by the special conditional evenifnot X then Y. | |C+- supports information hiding and, among friend classes only, rumor |sharing. Borrowing from the Eiffel lexicon, non-friend classes can be |killed by arranging contracts. Note that friendships are intransitive, |volatile, and non-Abelian. | |Single and multiple inheritance mechanisms are implemented with random |mutations. Disinheritance rules are covered by a complex probate protocol. |In addition to base, derrived, virtual, and abstract classes, C+- supports |gut classes. In certian locales, polygamous derivations and bastard |classes are permitted. Elsewhere, loose coupling between classes is illegal, |so the marriage and divorce operators may be needed: | |marriage (MParent1, FParent1); |// child classes can now be derrived |sclass MySclass: public MParent1, FParent1 |{ // define MySclass |} | |sclass YourSclass: public MParent1, FParent2 |// illegitimate | |divorce (MParent1, FParent1); | |marriage (MParent1, FParent2); |sclass YourSclass: public MParent1, FParent2 |{ // OK now |} | |Operator precedence rules can be suspended with the directive #pragma dwim, |known as the "Do what I mean" pragma. ANSIfication will be firmly resisted. |C+-'s slogan is "Be Your Own Standard." | | |[from the april '91 issue of AIExpert ]