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From: jnh@ecemwl.ncsu.edu (Joseph N. Hall)
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Subject: Re: THINK C 4.0 Press Release
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Date: 21 Jul 89 17:48:58 GMT
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In article <2253@husc6.harvard.edu> siegel@endor.harvard.edu (Rich Siegel) writes:
>THINK C (tm) version 4.0 (formerly THINK's LightspeedC), the first 
>Macintosh (r) compatible programming environment that supports object-
>oriented extensions to C...

The single most IMMEDIATELY useful of the c++ extensions, for me, would be
OPERATOR OVERLOADING.  Somehow I just can't get my FORTRAN buddies to look
seriously at C without a complex type ...  There are lots of engineering
applications waiting in the wings for the Mac if it would only support
convenient manipulation of complex quantities.

Frankly, I don't need a Mac class library all that much now, though I look
forward to using it.  What I really want are the critical language extensions.
(Improved draft-ANSI compatibility -- or, rather, ANY draft-ANSI compatibility
-- will be nice, too.)

So, umm, Rich, do I get my wish?  :-)