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From: nagel@paris.ics.uci.edu (Mark Nagel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Object Oriented C for the Mac
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Date: 26 Jul 89 15:50:21 GMT
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ts@cup.portal.com (Tim W Smith) writes:

>C++ is often ( most of the time? ) implemented as a preprocessor, so
>therefore, according to the above, is effectively run-of-the-mill
>C.

Just because a compiler's target language is C doesn't mean that the
language translated by the compiler is C.  That's just as absurd as
saying that C (or any other HLL) is simply a preprocessor for
assembly language!
-- 
Mark Nagel
UC Irvine, Department of Information and Computer Science
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