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From: kearns@read.columbia.edu (Steve Kearns)
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Date: 13 Sep 89 03:03:14 GMT
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I am very disappointed with Lightspeed's Pseudo object oriented 
extensions.  I have used C++ heavily; it is a great language which
is certainly going to be the next standard.  LSC 4.0 is an 
unfortunate detour along the way.  

An indepth discussion pointing out the failings of LSC's object system
would require much space and effort. Suffice to say that it is a kludge
compared to the elegance and thought put into C++.  I fear that
Think has sentenced themselves to supporting a kludgy variant of 
C for years to come, even after they eventually support C++, which
is inevitable.  

Note that Lightspeed's set of predefined classes may be nicely designed
(I have not studied them closely).  However, they would certainly be
better in C++.  

The bottom line is:  no serious developer should write code that uses the
new Think C 4.0 object oriented extensions.  The resulting code will not
be portable across platforms, and the code will probably be rewritten for
C++ someday anyway.  

-steve