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pfkeb@kaon.SLAC.Stanford.EDU (Paul Kunz) writes:


>   But when your objects are bigger, like windows, buttons, sliders, 
>and other controls of an applications, the easy to learn Objective-C
>language is more than adequate.   Also the very late binding, and
>lack of compile time checking allows techniques such as delegation
>to be easily implemented.

No, Objective C has compile time type checking, if that's the type
of checking you are referring to.

>   It is easy to conceive of an application that has a C++ computation
>kernal with an Objective-C GUI.  All you need is the ultimate
>language: Objective-C++.  What is Objective-C++?  Well if Objective-C
>is a layer on top of C, the Objective-C++ is a layer on top of C++.
>And it is available today from your GNU sources or any NeXT machine.

Uh, not quite.  I wouldn't term what the GNU compile supplied with
the NeXT does as Objective-C++.  The two don't mix as freely as you're
implying.

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