Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!ames!pasteur!ucbvax!decwrl!decvax!spray!anson From: anson@spray.CalComp.COM (Ed Anson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: New Mac Rumours Message-ID: <2604@spray.CalComp.COM> Date: 23 Feb 89 14:39:02 GMT References: <2302@cadre.dsl.PITTSBURGH.EDU> Reply-To: anson@spray.UUCP (Ed Anson) Organization: CalComp, A Lockheed Company, Hudson, NH, USA Lines: 19 In article <2302@cadre.dsl.PITTSBURGH.EDU> jas@cadre.dsl.PITTSBURGH.EDU (Jeffrey A. Sullivan) writes: >In article , wb1j+@andrew.cmu.edu (William M. Bumgarner) writes: >> The Finder (and probably the System) is being rewritten in C++... >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++? The current issue of Apple direct says: "We are committed to object-oriented programming and are planning future Macintosh environments that must be programmed with object- oriented techniques." This is pretty clear. What is not absolutely clear, is whether they will thereby break all existing application software. Or will they somehow make existing software compatible? -- ===================================================================== Ed Anson, Calcomp Display Products Division, Hudson NH 03051 (603) 885-8712, anson@elrond.CalComp.COM