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From: rick@hanauma.stanford.edu (Richard Ottolini)
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Subject: Re: Port of g++
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Date: 1 Jan 90 20:04:45 GMT
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In article <246300081@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu> jpd00964@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu writes:
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>As I have seen this question several times in the past, I was curious, why would
>anyone want to port g++ to the NeXT?

G++ runs on more machines than ObjectiveC and far more people are writing
code in that language.
The major exception is interactive graphical interface toolkits, which there
are a zillion of in OOPs, so NeXT people should stick with the best: NeXTStep.