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From: siegel@endor.harvard.edu (Rich Siegel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: THINK C 4.0 Press Release
Message-ID: <2258@husc6.harvard.edu>
Date: 22 Jul 89 00:03:32 GMT
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In article <3457@ncsuvx.ncsu.edu> jnh@ecemwl.UUCP (Joseph N. Hall) writes:
>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

	I might point out that the C supported by version 4.0 is NOT some
random subset of C++; it is a mostly ANSI-conformant C compiler, with
object-oriented extensions. Object orientation doesn't necessarily entail
other C++ extensions such as operator overloading. (Which by the way, is 
not in 4.0).

		--Rich
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 Rich Siegel
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