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From: ml27192@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Mark Lanett)
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Subject: Re: C++ and Objective C for the Mac
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darwish@eng.umd.edu (Mazen Mokhtar) writes:


>  I would like to know the names of Objective C and C++ compilers available
>for the Mac. I am interested in both languages.

I'm not aware of any Objective-C compiler for the Mac. There's the one that 
ships with the NeXT OS and one from Stepstone (which I believe is for PCs).
The only C++ compiler for the Mac is from Apple and requires the MPW environ-
ment, although Zortech's C++ compiler is coming out soon also (and also for
MPW; again, rumours suggest Zortech has plans for a high-end setup like it has
in the PC world). Symantec has a compiler which has object-oriented extensions
but it is _not_ C++. "THINK" C lacks constructors/destructors, operator and
function overloading, etc. It has the three basics for OOD: encapsulation,
inheritance, and polymorphism.  Members are automatically virtual. It's much
less expensive than an MPW setup, and a much faster compiler.

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Mark Lanett						ml27192@uxa.cs.uiuc.edu