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From: madden@prang.TEST.Vitalink.COM (Brendan Maddog Madden)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: NIH class libraries
Message-ID: <49@prang.TEST.Vitalink.COM>
Date: 25 Feb 91 03:39:03 GMT
Reply-To: madden@prang.UUCP (Brendan Maddog Madden)
Organization: Vitalink Comm. Corp.
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I am interested in using my NeXT (I'm still waiting for it) to do some C++
development using the NIH class libraries.  I sent away for the source to the 
libraries from the "Data Abstraction and Object Oriented Programming" book by 
Gorlen, Orlow, and Plexico.  I am still waiting for this source as well.  They 
arranged with the publisher to have source code distributed by mail for 16 dollars 
or so.  Does anybody know if I am going to be in any real trouble porting these 
libraries to use the GNU C++ 1.36 that NeXT ships with NeXTSTEP 2.0?  Any 
tips/warnings/hints would be greatly appreciated and I will do the same when I can 
get going on the NIH port.  As an aside, it looks as though Borland's Turbo C++ 
uses the NIH libraries as well in their Turbo C++ Compiler (see fall 1990 issue of 
the C++ Journal).  They ship the source to these libraries, at least it looks like 
the NIH class libraries from the article.  This would be nice for UNIX/DOS 
portability (get your flames in now).  They don't seem to have included the GNU 
regular expression code though.  Borland also seemed to have implemented a 
DoubleList class as well which I need.  I'm suprised that NeXT didn't ship NeXTSTEP 
with GNU 1.37 or higher since I have been reading about the use of this for some 
time now on comp.sys.sun.  I would appreciate if they made this upgrade when they 
ship NeXTSTEP 2.1 or whatever.  I hope NeXT is listening.

Brendan Madden
madden@eng.vitalink.com


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