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From: ech@cbnewsk.ATT.COM (ned.horvath)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: C++ for the Mac
Message-ID: <786@cbnewsk.ATT.COM>
Date: 4 Aug 89 17:37:20 GMT
References: <2278@husc6.harvard.edu>
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories
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Earlier, I wrote:
>So I'll rephrase my original statement, thus: unless you are a Maroney-
>class guru, and you are prepared to do one shitload of work, you aren't
>going to be using virtual methods in non-applications any time soon.

From article <2278@husc6.harvard.edu>, by siegel@endor.harvard.edu (Rich Siegel):
> 	I guess Mike Kahl is a Maroney-class :-) guru, then, because THINK
> C 4.0 lets you write *anything* using Object C. Applications, DA's,
> drivers, cdevs, inits, whatever. And non-applications can consist of 
> multiple segments.

Gees, Rich, read the WHOLE article, willya??  My point was with respect to
the forthcoming MPW C++ (please note the MPW, a product of a company
not yet owned by Symantec).  And my point was precisely that Apple is the
only major compiler supplier that doesn't provide adequate runtime support
for non-apps.  There's no excuse for this shortcoming, particularly in
view of all of Apple's "become object-oriented or die!" hype.  It is
right and proper for Kahl to provide such support; it is inappropriate
for customers of MPW to have to roll their own.

=Ned=