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From: fischer@iesd.uucp (Lars P. Fischer)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++,comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: Objective-C vs C++
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Date: 9 Nov 88 20:23:47 GMT
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Reply-To: fischer@iesd.dk (Lars P. Fischer)
Organization: Dept. of Comp. Sci., Aalborg University, Denmark
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In article <3438@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV> david@beowulf.JPL.NASA.GOV (David Smyth) writes:
>I think it was and is a good idea for any new language to generate C as
>an assembly language, like cfront does.

Making a compiler generate some high-level language is easier than
making it generate machine code. If you're going to implement a
compiler for some new or experimental language, this is an effective
way to go. But please note that this has nothing to do with the
language, it's an implementation technique.

The AdaVantage Ada compiler for the Mac generates C. The GNU C++
compiler generates machine code. This is all up to the compiler
writer, not the language designer. 
-- 
Lars Fischer,  fischer@iesd.dk, {...}!mcvax!diku!iesd!fischer
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