From: Warner Losh (imp@boulder.parcplace.com)
Date: 07/09/93


From: imp@boulder.parcplace.com (Warner Losh)
Subject: Re: ALPHA-pl11 available on nic: C++ support
Date: Fri, 9 Jul 1993 16:16:54 GMT

In article <badger.742192099@phylo> badger@phylo.life.uiuc.edu
(Jonathan Badger) writes:
>Or Objective-C? I really don't see why so many people are ignoring this
>language, but it allows smalltalk-style (ie. real) object-oriented programming
>which C++ simply can't offer.

True. However, the one implementation that I played with a few years
ago was so slow that it wasn't useful. C++ has its pitfalls, but at
least it is every bit as fast as C code, given a reasonable compiler
(which g++ is, and cfront might or might not be, depending on your
system). I don't know if this has improved or not in recent years.

Warner

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