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Subject: Re: What is Objective C?
Message-ID: <1990Aug27.071548.7425@abblund.se>
Date: 27 Aug 90 07:15:48 GMT
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In article <1990Aug23.151011.12954@chinet.chi.il.us> patrickd@chinet.chi.il.us (Patrick Deupree) writes:
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>I believe that Objective C is an actual Object Oriented C compiler whereas
>C++ is a pre-processor.  This basically means that C++ code is translated
>into C code which is then compiled into a final form.  

Wrong!

There are several C++ implementations available. Some are pre-processors,
some are compilers.
To my knowledge Objective-C is so far only available as a pre-processor,
but there is nothing to stop anyone from making a compiler.

>Patrick Deupree ->	patrickd@chinet.chi.il.us

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