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- From: moss@risc.sps.mot.com (Matthew Moss)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
- Subject: Re: What is Objective C?
- Date: 6 Mar 1996 13:23:22 -0600
- Organization: Motorola, Inc. -- Austin,TX
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- References: <4h5skk$k2i@news1.halcyon.com>
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- In article <4h5skk$k2i@news1.halcyon.com>,
- <danubius@chinook.halcyon.com> wrote:
- >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?
-
- Objective-C is related to C, but not to C++. The principal source of
- information on this language is NeXT, who bought it from Stepstone. Since
- NeXT uses a version of the gcc compiler, if you have access to gcc even
- without NeXTSTEP/OpenStep, you can experiment with it.
-
- C++ is to Simula as Objective-C is to Smalltalk. Obj-C works by sending
- "messages" to objects, similar to member functions on C++ objects, except
- that C++ is statically typebound and Obj-C is dynamically typebound. The
- syntax is simpler with Obj-C, although there are some features of C++ (some
- OO and some non-OO) that people miss in Obj-C, such as operator-overloading
- and multiple inheritance.
-
- I suggest you take a look at the Objective-C FAQ and the NeXT web site,
- http://www.next.com/
- --
- Matthew D Moss RISC Software, Motorola
- moss@risc.sps.mot.com http://www.mot.com/PowerPC/
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