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From: greg@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Greg Harp)
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Subject: Re: NeXT Press Release
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Date: 5 May 91 19:55:06 GMT
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In article <wd6G.2n+1@cs.psu.edu> melling@cs.psu.edu (Michael D Mellinger) writes:
>
>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.

<Sigh...>  I left what I wrote _once_ _again_ for your benefit.  If only one
or two Obj. C compilers exist for a platform and they haven't existed for very
long, the compiler is not going to be very good.  It's a simple fact that
compilers improve with revisions and competition.

BTW, I code for Amigas, PeeCees, and Suns (and whatever else I can get ahold
of).  Excellent C compilers are available for all of them.  C++ is, of course,
available on all of them, too.  Comeau C++ has just been ported to the Amiga,
BTW. 

Do you know why there isn't an Obj. C compiler for the Amiga?  Lack of
interest... 

Greg
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       Greg Harp       |"I was there to match my intellect on national TV,
                       | against a plumber and an architect, both with a PhD."
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