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From: cox@atlas.UUCP (Brad Cox)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.smalltalk,comp.lang.misc
Subject: Objective-C versus C++ (long!)
Message-ID: <313@atlas.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 2-Oct-87 14:47:15 EDT
Article-I.D.: atlas.313
Posted: Fri Oct  2 14:47:15 1987
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Organization: Productivity Products Int'l, Sandy Hook, CT
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Keywords: object-oriented, Objective-C, C++, Smalltalk
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This is a (long!) reply from Brad Cox, the originator of Objective-C, in 
response to

>> csrdi@its63b.ed.ac.uk (Rick Innis, CS4)
>>... I'd also like C++ and may well end up porting that myself, but I've
>> been told that Objective-C is a better language....
>
> Doug Moen (U Waterloo CGL) replies
> Strange...My understanding is that C++ is a better language.
> ...
> I'd be interested in seeing the opinions of people who have had
> non-trivial experience with both languages
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C++ is an ambitious programming language. Objective-C is the language component
of an ambitious programming environment. The two languages have remarkably little
in common except that some of their implementations invoke the native C compiler