Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!bbn!rochester!pt.cs.cmu.edu!cadre!jas From: jas@cadre.dsl.PITTSBURGH.EDU (Jeffrey A. Sullivan) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: New Mac Rumours Summary: C++? Apple? Message-ID: <2302@cadre.dsl.PITTSBURGH.EDU> Date: 22 Feb 89 07:03:23 GMT References: Organization: Decision Systems Lab., Univ. of Pittsburgh, PA. Lines: 17 In article , wb1j+@andrew.cmu.edu (William M. Bumgarner) writes: > The Finder (and probably the System) is being rewritten in C++... The speed > increases quoted are absolutely amazing. > > a little birdy told me... Is this true? Does this mean Apple's reworking their system into an object-oriented architecture (yes oh yes oh please)? I'd think we'd hear more of this. If not, why the hell use C++? I'd love so much for this to be true. Is there any sharing of sources? -- .......................................................................... Jeffrey Sullivan | University of Pittsburgh jas@cadre.dsl.pittsburgh.edu | Intelligent Systems Studies Program jasper@PittVMS.BITNET, jasst3@cisunx.UUCP | Graduate Student