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From: jimad@microsoft.UUCP (Jim ADCOCK)
Newsgroups: comp.object
Subject: Re: What is Objective C?
Keywords: C++, Objective C
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Date: 27 Aug 90 22:31:36 GMT
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One way to try to put comparisons of OOPLs into perspective is to try
to measure how much interest there is in each language.  I've been tracking
such interest by noting how many references to the various languages
appears each month in the Computer Library database.  The database is
shipped monthly on CD-ROM, and represents abstracts and/or complete 
articles from almost all articles in almost all the major computer journals over
the prior year..  The August database shows the following number of references
by various OOPL languages:

C++		2044
Smalltalk	 869
Objective-C	 228
Eiffel		  48