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- From: mlanett@Apple.COM (Mark Lanett)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
- Subject: Re: C and C++ development on the Mac
- Message-ID: <70341@apple.Apple.COM>
- Date: 22 Jul 92 20:06:17 GMT
- References: <1992Mar31.141620.26603@bmers95.bnr.ca> <1992Jul17.084856.18522@newstand.syr.edu> <sch-200792164510@schaffner.mitre.org> <aland.711733679@chaos.cs.brandeis.edu> <sch-220792120313@schaffner.mitre.org>
- Organization: Apple Computer Inc., Cupertino, CA
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- sch@mitre.org (Stu Schaffner) writes:
-
- >Ouch, another flame war. IMHO (not a fact), Pascal lost favor because
- >different groups offered different extensions and the users were unable to
- >resist using and becoming dependent on those features. I know this isn't
- >an object-oriented newsgroup but I can't imagine a bunch of Prolog
- >programmers being able to resist using the OOP extensions. As for being
- >proprietary, I just meant that salespeople aren't exactly deluging me with
- >mail about other implementations of C+-.
-
- Other implementations: Apple's Object Pascal was offered by Apple, THINK
- Pascal and the late, great TML Pascal (ok, so-so, but it gave me a cheap entry
- to MPW). I heard, but may be wrong, that Borland also offered it on the PC
- side.
- --
- /* Well, you wanted a command line interface, you got one, and now you
- can't figure out how to use it without the manual. What were you expecting?
- That's how command line interfaces work. - John Nagle */
-