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From: ech@cbnewsk.ATT.COM (ned.horvath)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer,comp.lang.c++
Subject: Re: C++ for the Mac???
Message-ID: <422@cbnewsk.ATT.COM>
Date: 7 Jun 89 21:05:29 GMT
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Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories
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From article <238@hhb.UUCP>, by lee@hhb.UUCP (lee daniels):

> I need information about the availability of  C++ development
> environments for the Mac.  I can develop either under Mac OS or AUX
> but the resulting application must be able to run under Mac OS as
> a minimum.  I know that Apple is working on C++ for MPW. Is it available,
> and if so is it any good?  Has someone ported GNU to MAC?  Is there a
> third party with C++ out there?

Apple have been working closely with the folks at AT&T, and say they will
ship an MPW cfront 2.0 "real soon" after AT&T ships.  AT&T sounds pretty
firm about 6/30 (no, I don't have any insider information), so expect C++
from Apple in the fall.  I don't expect MacApp support for C++ until 1Q90,
if then.

Meanwhile, Think (div. of Symantec) is planning a non-C++ OO extension to
their Lightspeed C package.  They demoed some preliminary stuff at MacWorld
in January, but haven't announced a ship date.

You ought to contact the usual suspects -- Oregon Software and Zortech come
to mind -- about A/UX-resident products.  They may not be useful for your
final product (or likely are, if you are disciplined) but should get you
started.

Doubtless there are other efforts of which I am ignorant...

=Ned Horvath=