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From: patrickd@chinet.chi.il.us (Patrick Deupree)
Newsgroups: comp.object,comp.lang.c++
Subject: Re: What is Objective C?
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Date: 23 Aug 90 15:10:11 GMT
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In article <3864@bingvaxu.cc.binghamton.edu> cjoslyn@bingvaxu.cc.binghamton.edu (Cliff Joslyn) writes:
>
>Well, the subject line says it all.  What is Objective C? How does it
>compare with C++? What is the title of a good book?
>

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.  Some would argue that
this makes it somewhat a kludge and they don't want to use it.  Objective
C is sometimes thought of as a more "pure" object oriented solution to
C.  These issues arose in a heated discussion with one of our R&D folk when
I said C++ wasn't bad and he talked of the virtues of Objective C.

(It's been a while since I've gone over all this so I may be wrong.)
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