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From: new@ee.udel.edu (Darren New)
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Subject: Re: Objective C is a Kludge ( was Re: An Intuition.device? )
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Date: 12 Sep 90 22:02:11 GMT
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In article <385@public.BTR.COM> eeh@public.BTR.COM (Eduardo E. Horvath  eeh@btr.com) writes:
>However, Objective
>C does not have constructors or destructors, and that makes it unacceptable
>as a true OOPL.  

Say what!?!  Smalltalk does not have destructors either, but I wouldn't
say that makes Smalltalk not a OOPL. (I think it should have destructors,
but then you get back to reference counting, which is also slow.)

>Finally, Objective C only has dynamic typing (slow).

Not true.  My understanding is that Obj-C is a strict superset of plain
old C, and hence has plenty of static typing.

The dynamic function calls should not be particularly slow either,
judging by what I know of their implementation. Certainly not much
slower than C++'s virtual functions, if indeed slower at all.

      -- Darren
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