Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!banana.cis.ohio-state.edu!macgyver From: macgyver@banana.cis.ohio-state.edu (wilson m liaw) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer Subject: Re: ThinkSpeed C++-------- Message-ID: <60557@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> Date: 13 Sep 89 21:19:24 GMT References: <336@castle.ed.ac.uk> <13519@well.UUCP> <6494@columbia.edu> <1478@bnlux0.bnl.gov> <3949@ncsuvx.ncsu.edu> Sender: news@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu Reply-To: wilson m liaw Organization: Ohio State University Computer and Information Science Lines: 20 In article <3949@ncsuvx.ncsu.edu> jnh@ecemwl.UUCP (Joseph N. Hall) writes: >In article <1478@bnlux0.bnl.gov> drs@bnlux0.UUCP (David R. Stampf) writes: [....] >I don't see C++ being a speedy development environment, or a stable (and >proven) one, on the Mac -- not for at least a year after the initial release >(which will be cfront, I am lead to believe) from APDA. Furthermore, the >MacApp licensing fee disgusts me, and MacApp will be the C++ class library >... NOT EVEN WRITTEN IN C++. What difference does it make if the class library is written in C++ or not? I know the licensing fee is dumb [IMHO]. But as long as you can use the library from c++, it doesn't matter what lang. the library is in. Mac -=- Wilson Mac Liaw $ Two sure ways to tell a sexy male; Internet : macgyver@cis.ohio-state.edu $ the first is, he has a bad memory. CompuServe : 71310,1653 $ I forget the second :) GEnie : W.Liaw $