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Re: Objective-C vs. C++

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From: John F. Wiederhirn
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 15:44
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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.

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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