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From: jwhitnell@cup.portal.com (Jerry D Whitnell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: The Symantec Developer's Breakfast (at 12pm)
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Date: 21 Jan 89 20:47:15 GMT
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Symantec gave a breakfast to 200 Macintosh developers yesterday at noon.  After
breakfast they had 3 speakers.  The first was a developer from the publishers
of Fox/Base, who talked about the problems of porting C code from the PC to
the Mac.  The second was John McEnernery, co-author of Lighspeed Pascal.  He
spoke about Lightspeed Pascal 2.0 (what else) and how best to use the debugger.

The third speaker was Mike Kahl, author of LightspeedC.  He showed us some
work-in-progress, an Object C extension to LightspeedC.  Object C is to C what
Object Pascal is to Pascal.  It is also a subset of C++, including primarily
the class portions of C++.  The compiler and debugger were working and he
demoed a translation of the LSP Object Draw program.  No date was given
when it would be available, however.  I would guess summer at the earliest,
depending on what else they decide to put in.

During the question-and-answer period, he also committed to makeing LSC ANSI
standard C (with extensions, obviously).  

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Jerry Whitnell                    Several Species of Small Furry
jwhitnell@cup.portal.com          Animals Gathered Together in a
..!sun!cup.portal.com!jwhitnell   Cave and Grooving with a PICT.