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From: bhamlin@farcomp.UUCP (Brian Hamlin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: ThinkSpeed C++--------
Summary: Positive response to LS_C 4
Message-ID: <50@farcomp.UUCP>
Date: 13 Sep 89 20:01:46 GMT
References: <336@castle.ed.ac.uk> <13519@well.UUCP> <6494@columbia.edu> <817@mathrt0.math.chalmers.se>
Reply-To: bhamlin@farcomp.UUCP (Brian Hamlin)
Organization: Farallon Computing Inc. Berkeley, CA
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In article <817@mathrt0.math.chalmers.se> bertil@milou.cd.chalmers.se () writes:
>In article <6494@columbia.edu> kearns@cs.columbia.edu writes:
>>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.  
>
I'm not sure what this person is getting at - a 'serious' developer on
the Mac I would suspect would be writing code adapted and optimized to
make use of the extensive and proprietary Macintosh system services. 

The Object extensions to LS_C are quite minimal - it is the extensive 
object libraries which are the meat of the new release, and in my
experience, have proven to be some of the best application library 
routines I've seen around. It's limited, but clean, quick and well
designed. Perhaps others have had experience with this new system ?

I've done extensive work in the environment, and I remain impressed.

>*is* there any real C++ for the mac (other than inhouse apple stuff)
>available now?
>Bertil K K Jonell @ Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg
>NET: bertil@cd.chalmers.se 
>VOICE: +46 31 723971 / +46 300 61004     "Don`t worry,I`ve got Pilot-7"
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There has been ongoing dialog concerning the C++ efforts on the Mac
- see previous postings in this newsgroup.