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From: phd_ivo@gsbacd.uchicago.edu
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Subject: F77, OBJ-C <> G++
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Date: 4 May 89 04:39:11 GMT
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Ceteris censeo Carthaginem esse delendum... As always, let me second the motion
that NeXt should cater a bit more to the "cheap" scientific work-station
market. Support of the new Weitek FLP accelerator chip, and a cheap Fortran
(f77)---or even better, a cheap Fortran compatible with Gnu C---would be of
value for the typical scientific user. Incidentally, a Fortran with a
C-interface is required to run S (the premier statistical UNIX system).

My question, however, concerns C. I am about to write a package for matrix and
vector manipulation. Neither C nor Objective C are appropriate: they do not
possess operator overloading and cannot automatically garbage collect. C++
seems much more appropriate.

I think the GNU project also supplies a C++ compiler.

	(1) Has anyone used this (or any) C++ system on NeXt?
	(2) Are there plans to distribute this C++ with NeXt?
	(3) Are there plans to integrate C++ with, or C++ features into,
		objective C? Or, is C++ just close enough a preprocessor
		to suggest native-C interfacing to obj-C (i guess i am
		looking forward to using multiple pre-processors...)

As always, answers appreciated.

Ivo

PS: I was just told that the order I placed for my NeXt five weeks ago (having
paid $8500 to this wonderful university = loss of about $100/mo interest as a
taxed donation to this university) is still ignored by NeXt. Last I heard was
another three weeks. Far cry from the "expected delivery time" of <3 weeks. I
wonder whether the NeXt salesman will keep his/her word this time... Has anyone
gotten a machine from NeXt during the last four weeks?