cox@atlas.UUCP (Brad Cox) (10/02/87)
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ This is a (long!) reply from Brad Cox, the originator of Objective-C, in response to >> csrdi@its63b.ed.ac.uk (Rick Innis, CS4) >>... I'd also like C++ and may well end up porting that myself, but I've >> been told that Objective-C is a better language.... > > Doug Moen (U Waterloo CGL) replies > Strange...My understanding is that C++ is a better language. > ... > I'd be interested in seeing the opinions of people who have had > non-trivial experience with both languages ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ C++ is an ambitious programming language. Objective-C is the language component of an ambitious programming environment. The two languages have remarkably little in common except that some of their implementations invoke the native C compiler