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From: siegel@endor.harvard.edu (Rich Siegel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: C++ for the Mac
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Date: 21 Jul 89 04:24:51 GMT
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In article <14505@dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU> isle@eleazar.dartmouth.edu (Ken Hancock) writes:
>Actually, according to Symantech's rep at Boston Computer
>Society's meeting a few weeks ago, LSC 4.0 is due out later

	1) The "Symantec rep" was Michael Kahl, the principal author of
	LightspeedC.

	2) A press release announcing version 4.0 went out yesterday
	(see my posting on comp.sys.mac, which contains the full text
	of that press release). According to the release, THINK C 4.0
	will ship in about three weeks.

>this fall.  The bad news is it will only support partial 
>implementation of C++.  We'll have to wait for LSC 5.0
>for full C++ implementation I guess.

	I would suggest that you investigate what is offered before passing
it up; TC 4.0 offers the chief feature of C++: object orientation. And it
does so in a fashion which avoids much of the confusion of C++, since the
extension set is small enough to make learning the language easy.

	But hey, that's just this man's opinion...

		--Rich

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 Rich Siegel
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