Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!pt.cs.cmu.edu!andrew.cmu.edu!aw1r+ From: aw1r+@andrew.cmu.edu (Alfred Benjamin Woodard) Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++ Subject: Re: Choice of language for manufacturing Applications Message-ID: Date: 2 Aug 90 22:14:38 GMT References: <26686@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU> Organization: Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA Lines: 14 In-Reply-To: <26686@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU> After reading your message about the adavantages of objective-c over c++, I was curious why you posted it to a c++ news group. Incedently I agree on many of the points you have made concerning why you prefer objective-c over c++, however I prefer c++ for other reasons that you have neglected to bring up. One of the major ones being the consistancy of the language. I like smalltalk and I like c but I don't like them mixed. C++ seems to me to be an extension of c whereas objective-c seems to be stealing a portion of smalltalk along with its syntax and imbedding it in c. It doesn't feel like a natural blend. When I write in c++ it looks like c. When I write in objective-c it looks like smalltalk. -ben