Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!samsung!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!sdd.hp.com!ucsd!hub.ucsb.edu!eiffel!bertrand From: bertrand@eiffel.UUCP (Bertrand Meyer) Newsgroups: comp.object Subject: Re: What is Objective C? Message-ID: <401@eiffel.UUCP> Date: 30 Aug 90 00:30:17 GMT References: <3864@bingvaxu.cc.binghamton.edu> <2700002@hpspkla.spk.hp.com> <11241@alice.UUCP> Organization: Interactive Software Engineering, Santa Barbara CA Lines: 12 It is always surprising to see so many people confusing programming languages and their implementations. Again and again again people - apparently including professionals in the field - will overlook that distinction, making entire discussions irrelevant at best and misleading at worst. Why is that so? There is nothing tricky or difficult in the distinction. Just common sense. -- Bertrand Meyer bertrand@eiffel.com