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From: scotte@applix.com (Scott Evernden)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Subject: Re: C++ Linkage, Interface Issues
Message-ID: <1070@applix.com>
Date: 7 Aug 90 20:43:18 GMT
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Reply-To: scotte@applix.UUCP (Scott Evernden)
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In article <???> (Alfred Benjamin Woodard) writes:
>What we need is to get away from the current model of separate source
>text files, separate object files, separate compilation, separate linking.
>We need a more integrated environment.  For example, typical real-world
>C programs may include thousands of lines of header files for each
>module, the header files processed over and over.  This is very wasteful.

I think ParcPlaces's ObjectWorks for C++ comes very close to this model
you're proposing.  From the very little time I've spent playing with it,
I'm convinced that this is the direction we need to move in...

-scott