From: ikluft@uts.amdahl.com (Ian Kluft) Subject: Re: ALPHA-pl11 available on nic: C++ support Date: 12 Jul 1993 00:01:33 GMT
badger@phylo.life.uiuc.edu (Jonathan Badger) writes:
>yseeley@leland.Stanford.EDU (Yonik Christopher Seeley) writes:
>>[...] C++ is a hybrid language and doesn't try to be a full
>>blown object oriented language. Use something like small-talk if
>>you want something closer to a pure object oriented language.
>
>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. Has anyone played with the GNU version? Doesn't
>stepstone still own the objective-c lib? Or is there a GNU objective-c lib
>as well?
Objective-C is also a hybrid language. In this case, Smalltalk was grafted
onto C. They paid a lot of attention to making good algorithms for the
implementation. But you still pretty much have to know both C and Smalltalk
to completely understand Objective-C.
Back in 1990, when I did my masters thesis on a subject related to this, it
was not clear which would win between C++ and Objective-C. Now in 1993,
there is no question that C++ has become the better-known and more-developed
language of the two.
-- Ian Kluft KD6EUI PP-ASEL Amdahl Corporation, Open Systems Development ikluft@uts.amdahl.com Santa Clara, CA [disclaimer: any opinions expressed are mine only... not those of my employer]