On Mon, 8 Dec 2025 at 22:55, Frederick Virchanza Gotham wrote:

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> On Mon, Dec 8, 2025 at 6:25 PM Jeremy Rifkin wrote:
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> > Since the motivation relies on extremely heavy use of OOP, maybe
> > discuss how prevalent this is and alternatives to that heavy use of OOP.
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> Isn't OOP to C++ kind of like bouncing a ball to basketball? Honestly
> when I talk about doing OOP in C++, I feel like I'm telling people
> that I use my kettle for boiling water (i.e. obviously I use my kettle
> for boiling water).
>

https://www.stroustrup.com/oopsla.pdf



> > Since the proposal is largely motivated by code size “ballooning” from
> templates,
> > please discuss how significant this issue really is and discuss ICF.
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>
> I google'ed ICF just now and it came back with a few matching acronyms
> -- which one do you mean?
>

Identical code folding.