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From: melling@cs.psu.edu (Michael D Mellinger)
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Subject: Re: NeXT Press Release
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In article <48298@ut-emx.uucp> greg@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Greg Harp) writes:

   You don't understand, do you?!  I didn't bring up hardware standards and
   they are not what concerns me.  My concern is with language and code
   portability.  Porting between systems doesn't bother me as long as _good_
   compilers can be found for each system.  

   In the case of Obj. C, there aren't enough compilers on enough platforms to
   cause the competition to create fast enough, good enough compilers.  

Which machines do you write for?  If you say the Mac, then you win.
There isn't an Objective C compiler for it.  Of course there is only
one C++ compiler if Zortech hasn't finished their port.

-Mike