Is C++ completely object oriented language?
No, it isn't. You can write a valid, well-coded, excellently-styled C++ program without using an object even once.
C++ supports object-oriented programming, but OO is not intrinsic to the language. In fact, the main function isn't a member of an object.
In smalltalk or Java, you can't tie your shoes (or write "Hello, world") without at least one class.
(Of course, one can argue about Java being a completely object-oriented language too, because its primitives (say, int) are not objects.)
C++ contains a 'C' dialect as a subset, permitting a purely procedural style of code.
The big arguments people have against declaring C++ as "pure" OO is that it still requires at least one non-OO bit, main()
, and that not everything is an object (int
, long
et al).
It also exposes the state of an object for manipulation without using the message-passing paradigm (public members). This breaks the encapsulation of objects.
Java, on the other hand, has main()
as just a static method of a class so it's closer but it still has non-object things in it.
Smalltalk is the lingua franca normally held up as the purest of the pure, but I don't know enough about it to comment.
Me, I tend to leave those sort of arguments for the intelligentsia while I get on with developing code and delivering to my clients :-)