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- From: johnw@bobcat.cbm.commodore.com (John F. Wiederhirn)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.objective-c,comp.lang.c++
- Subject: Re: Objective-C vs. C++
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- Date: 26 Aug 92 15:44:36 GMT
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- timm@void.ncsa.uiuc.edu (Tim McClarren) writes:
- > andy@uh.msc.edu (Andrew Hollenbeck) writes:
- > >C++ is certainly more popular, but that doesn't necessarily mean that it is
- > >better. You can walk into any bookstore and find a couple dozen C++ books, but I
- > >have yet to find a single Objective-C book in those stores.
- >
- > There aren't any decent Objective books...don't waste your money on
- > the Weiner and Pinson book. It's terrible.
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- The seminal work by Brad Cox and Andrew Novobilski is quite good, IMO.
- It's rather readable, and explains quite a bit about OOLs in general,
- Objective-C in particular, and the Objective-C compiler framework in
- detail.
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