Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!cos!hqda-ai!arbaugh
From: arbaugh@hqda-ai.UUCP (Bill Arbaugh)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: LightSpeed C, and C++
Message-ID: <702@hqda-ai.UUCP>
Date: 3 Mar 88 23:22:05 GMT
References: <6815@drutx.ATT.COM> <76000138@uiucdcsp>
Organization: Army AI Center, Pentagon
Lines: 24
Summary: C++, LSC

In article <76000138@uiucdcsp>, gillies@uiucdcsp.cs.uiuc.edu writes:
> 
> I believe that C++ was designed so it could be implemented with a
> preprocessor (a more sophisticated proprocessor than M4, which brings
> #include and #define to C programming).

The C++ by AT&T is somewhat like a preprocessor, but it also plays
with the objects upon exit and etc.  This is AT&T's software so if
you want to use it be prepared to pay $$$.  It would also be
difficult to get running on a Mac (maybe with A/UX).  GNU C++, on
the other hand, is a complete compiler so you would not be in the
LSC environment any longer.  Again I think there may be problems
porting it to the Mac.

It certainly would be nice to have that capability!




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