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From: marti@ethz.UUCP (Robert Marti)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Object Oriented C for the Mac
Message-ID: <1660@ethz.UUCP>
Date: 27 Jul 89 13:03:46 GMT
References: <44053@tiger.oxy.edu> <227700016@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu> <2286@husc6.harvard.edu>
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In article <2286@husc6.harvard.edu>, siegel@endor.harvard.edu (Rich Siegel)
writes:
> Can you imagine how slow LightspeedC would be if there were a C++
> preprocessor [ a la cfront ] tacked onto it?
Can you say SnailspeedC++ (TM)?  :-)

> Also, using a preprocessor makes it very difficult to offer source-
> level debugging for the preprocessed code.
Yes.
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