From: hahn@neurocog.lrdc.pitt.edu (Mark Hahn) Subject: Re: ALPHA-pl11 available on nic: C++ support Date: 12 Jul 1993 06:01:44 GMT
> Sure, C++ is not the perfect OO language. Neither is Objective-C (no
> exception handling, and I think no Garbage Collection). For that matter,
> neither is Smalltalk (no GC).
Smalltalk certainly does have GC. In fact, it's got just about everything
except efficiency (Self comes the closest.) My major beef with ObjC is that
it's a graft of two incompatible syntaxes, and omits the cool features of
Smalltalk (upward blocks, etc.)
regards, mark hahn.