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From: mnkonar@manyjars.SRC.Honeywell.COM (Murat N. Konar)
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Subject: Re: C++ for the Mac
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Date: 25 Jul 89 16:05:57 GMT
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In article <227700015@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu> jpd00964@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu writes:
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>To bad they did not go with Objective C instead.  A much better language.

True enough for applications I suppose.  But I wonder if Objective C
could do WDEFs, CDEFs (ie. stand alone code) and still take advantage
of object orientedness (can C++?).  

Also, and probably more important, Objective C is a proprietary product
of Stepstone, Inc. and they charge in the neighborhood of $2500 for 
the Sun version of Objective C.  So even if THINK could get Stepstone
to allow an Objective C clone for the Mac, it is likely that it would
be mondo expensivo.



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