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In article <1991May24.143213.25931@cbnewsl.att.com> wag1@cbnewsl.att.com (d.wagley) writes:
   I've heard alot of complaints in this newsgroup about how C++ is
   inferior to objective-c. One nice thing about C++ is that it's
   easy to find lots of information on it. The only thing I've found
   so far on objective-c is Brad Cox's book, which seems to be more
   a discussion of the object oriented approach than a tutorial on
   objective-c. 

Not that I'm going to offer up any example code - I've got what I've
written on the NeXT-specific archives, and since it's all NeXT-
specific code, it's not good Objective-C example code.

But, I think you've taken any of the c++ denigration that periodically
occurs on this group wrong.  C++ isn't really inferior to Objective-C,
anymore than a tire iron is inferior to an Allen wrench.  It's just
that they don't do the same jobs.  When you need an Allen wrench, a
tire iron does you no good, and vice versa.

Obviously, c++ and Objective-C are slightly closer than tire irons
and Allen wrenches, but those things they do _well_ are far enough
apart to make the overlap a relatively minor consideration when you
are deciding on a new language.  For instance, you cannot do the
'perform:', 'perform:with:' and other similar methods in c++
at this time - while c++ is excellent at encapsulating small
chunks of information (Objective-C is not, as it's less efficient
if you get too fine-grained, at least when compared with c++).

The question people really need to consider before deciding
between the two languages is whether either of them even fit
their needs.  Then, they should decide if maybe _both_ could
be used (not really a solid option until GNU's Objective-C
comes out), and only then should they decide which one makes
the most sense in their situation.  If the first two questions
are asked in a serious manner, and answered objectively (pardon
the pun), the third question would seldom (if ever) need to be
asked.

Later,
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