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From: weiner@novavax.UUCP (Bob Weiner)
Newsgroups: comp.object,comp.lang.c++
Subject: Re: Dumb question
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Date: 30 Nov 89 02:30:19 GMT
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> If you like the Smalltalk style that you described, but you'd like to
> use C++, a good bet is to use the NIH class library (formerly known as
> OOPS, available from your usual friendly distributor of public domain
> software, e.g. uunet).  By using NIH classes, and deriving your own
> classes from the NIH hierarchy, you can get much of the behavior
> you're talking about.

Could someone please provide more detail on the NIH class library?  Does
it try to replicate the Smalltalk class hierarchies in C++?  Does NIH
have to with inventing or diseases?

Thanks for any elucidation.
-- 
Bob Weiner, Motorola, Inc.,   USENET:  ...!gatech!uflorida!novavax!weiner
(407) 364-2087


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