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From: hearn@claris.com (Bob Hearn)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: LSC++?
Message-ID: <9707@claris.com>
Date: 10 Apr 89 00:09:15 GMT
References: <11822@ut-emx.UUCP>
Organization: Claris Corporation, Mountain View CA
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From article <11822@ut-emx.UUCP>, by padraig@ut-emx.UUCP (Padraig Houlahan):
> In article <1465@sw1e.UUCP> uucibg@sw1e.UUCP (Brian Gilstrap [5-3929]) writes:
> ~In article <9166@claris.com> hearn@claris.com (Bob Hearn) writes:
> ~>Hey, Brian, how's it going?  I don't know much about Objective-C, but I've
> ~Just a quick personal note and then onward:  Bob, it's going pretty well.
> 
> 
> (This may not be the best group for posting this, however since my
> eventual concern is with developing code on the mac I'll go ahead.)
> 
> My initial impressions after playing around with C++ is that apart from
> a few extra features, there is very little to be gained in using it
> instead of C. By this I mean a good top down structure (to me at least)
> would appear to have 90% of the benefits that an object oriented approach
> claims.
> 
> Am I missing something obvious?
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Padraig Houlahan.

I've only been using C++ for a few months, and now I've quit my job to
form my own company, and I have to go back to C.  I'm finding it very
difficult.  Surprisingly, what I miss most are inline functions and
operator overloading.  Classes make the language complicated, and their
very useful, but I'd sooner do without them than inline funcs & operator
overloading.

Bob Hearn
hearn@claris.com