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From: dgold@apple.com (David Goldsmith)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: THINK C 4.0 (C++ questions)
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Date: 2 Aug 89 21:21:32 GMT
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In article <2346@husc6.harvard.edu> siegel@endor.harvard.edu (Rich Siegel) 
writes:
>         As far as I know, MacApp doesn't exist for use with C++, and 
> it will be a while before there is a class library from Apple that
> works with C++.

This isn't quite true.  MacApp 2.0b9, available now through APDA, is 
compatible with MPW C++.  The problem is not MacApp; the problem is that 
MPW C++ is not available yet.  There are C++ MacApp programs running 
inside of Apple.  In fact, the ViewEdit program which comes with MacApp 
has been converted to C++ (though I don't know if the version that shipped 
with MacApp 2.0b9 is the C++ or the original Pascal version).

You should be able to do MacApp programming in C++ as soon as C++ is 
available.  Now that AT&T has release CFront 2.0, that shouldn't be much 
longer (though making a prediction would be a bad idea, as it would almost 
certainly turn out wrong).


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