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From: keith@Apple.COM (Keith Rollin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: OOP--What do you think?
Message-ID: <51772@apple.Apple.COM>
Date: 20 Apr 91 22:36:30 GMT
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Organization: Apple Computer Inc., Cupertino, CA
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In article <7822.280F0E44@stjhmc.fidonet.org> Lawson.English@p88.f15.n300.z1.fidonet.org (Lawson English) writes:
>Kevin Hegg writes in a message to All
>
>KH> Yes, I thought their class library and examples were cute, but 
>KH> they made some standard Mac code a lot more complicated and unreadable 
>KH> than it needs to be. I decided not to use their stuff anymore 
>KH> because I am not comfortable with the structure of their code 
>KH> and their non-standard OO language (not C++). I use MPW C and 
>KH> C++ solely now
>
>??? Think C is just a port of Object Pascal to C. As Object Pascal has been
>around for ever and ever (the Lisa had a prequel called Clascal, and O-Pascal
>was a Nickie Wirth rewrite for Apple), I would call it pretty standard (at least
>on a Mac!). 

More than that, too, I think. I heard that MicroSoft has a Pascal that
uses the same OO extensions and method dispatching mechanisms that
Apple does.

Also note that Grady Booch makes extensive reference to Object Pascal
in his definitive work "Object-Oriented Design with Applications."

By the way, Object Pascal isn't just something Wirth whipped up for
Apple.  Object Pascal was the work of several people at Apple. I think
that Wirth was "just" a consultant.

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