Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!hplabs!hpda!hpcuhb!hpcilzb!lee From: lee@hpcilzb.HP.COM (Lee Bentz) Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc Subject: Re: general object oriented reference Message-ID: <1610005@hpcilzb.HP.COM> Date: 25 May 89 16:40:23 GMT References: Organization: HP Design Tech Center - Santa Clara, CA Lines: 30 In my response I said >>/ hpcilzb:comp.lang.misc / lee@hpcilzb.HP.COM (Lee Bentz) / 9:30 am May 23, 1989 / >> ...(some deleted) >> >> It is C++ based ( examples ) but explains the value of OOP well ^^^^^^^^^ And was replied to >HUH? Not the last I read it, it wasn't. Dr. Cox is the designer of >ObjectiveC not C++, and thus the book is rife with ObjC code. (ObjC is >the "native" language of the NeXT box, and unfortunately implies that >everything that you write in it MUST include substantial overhead for >their message-passing function. I have heard that it >40k of additional >code, and it decreases execution speed by at least 10%. Confirm?) > > > >Robert Raisch - TechnoJunkie & UnixNut| UseNet: {uunet,mailrus}!frith!raisch >Network Software Group-301 Comp.Center| InterNet: raisch@frith.egr.msu.edu >Michigan State University, E. Lansing | ICBMNet: 084 28 50 W / 42 43 29 N >----- The meek WILL inherit the Earth, (Some of us have other plans). ------ and by others. The book does make a comparison to C++ but is Object C based. And the NeXT box may be slower but it writes a _lot_ of the interface code for you. It programs faster. The users ( programmers ) I talked with were enthusiastic about it. It's hard to separate I/O access speed and message passing overhead. ( You want speed ? Don't multiprocess. ;-) ) Lee (if you don't know the language, you can't hear the accents) Bentz