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- From: pfkeb@hpkaon.SLAC.Stanford.EDU (Paul F. Kunz)
- Subject: Re: What is Objective C?
- In-Reply-To: danubius@chinook.halcyon.com's message of 1 Mar 1996 03:58:12 GMT
- Message-ID: <PFKEB.96Mar1073337@hpkaon.SLAC.Stanford.EDU>
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- Reply-To: Paul_Kunz@slac.stanford.edu
- Organization: Stanford Linear Accelerator Center
- References: <4h5skk$k2i@news1.halcyon.com>
- Date: Fri, 1 Mar 1996 15:33:37 GMT
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- >>>>> On 1 Mar 1996 03:58:12 GMT, danubius@chinook.halcyon.com () said:
-
- > Last summer I saw a lot of ads looking for people with "Objective C"
- > experience. I couldn't find anybody among my co-workers who would
- > know what this language is about. Is it some kind of hybrid between
- > C and C++? Is it a specific vendor's product? Anybody out there
- > familiar with it?
-
- A detailed response can be had from the comp.lang.objective-c news
- group and its FAQ. A quick response is that Objective-C is a language
- invented about the same time as C++. It addes the objects and
- messaging between objects (invoking member functions in C++ parlence)
- to C and that's all, so it is very close to C. The way you declare,
- define, and invoke member functions is more like SmallTalk than C++.
-
- Notable vendors of Objective-C compilers are...
-
- - NeXT. Objective-C is their language for OO development.
- - Sun. Their NEO compiler (to be released later this year) supports it
- for OpenStep development
- - FSF. The GNU compiler supports it. I have found many sites have
- installed Objective-C compiler without knowing it.
-
-
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- Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, Stanford University
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