rbp@investor.pgh.pa.us (Bob Peirce #305) (12/23/90)
The bookstores are full of books on C++, but none on Objective C. Postscript seems to be a non-entity. Can anyone suggest good sources of info on these two languages. I have several years of experience with C and Unix utilities, all Sys III & V. -- Bob Peirce, Pittsburgh, PA 412-471-5320 ...!uunet!pitt!investor!rbp rbp@investor.pgh.pa.us
langz@prodigal.Eng.Sun.COM (Lang Zerner) (01/02/91)
In article <1990Dec23.020007.22765@investor.pgh.pa.us> rbp@investor.pgh.pa.us (Bob Peirce #305) writes: >The bookstores are full of books on C++, but none on Objective C. >Postscript seems to be a non-entity. Can anyone suggest good >sources of info on these two languages. o Adobe Systems, Inc., PostScript Level 2 Language Reference Manual (Addison-Wesley, 1990). This is the definitive documentation of the syntax and semantics of the PostScript language. It is not a tutorial, nor does it explicitly suggest programming style (for this info, see Adobe's PostScript Language Tutorial and Cookbook). Note: the original PostScript Language Reference Manual, or "red book," is now obsolete; it has a red cover and is about an inch thick. The PS Level 2 book, which includes Display PostScript documentation, is mostly white with a red stripe, and is a couple of inches thick. o Cox, Bradley, Object-Oriented Programming: an Evolutionary Approach (don't know the publisher). This book introduces the philosophy behind and structure of Objective-C. It provides plentiful figures and code examples. Note: the current edition documents the version of Objective-C that was current prior to the version used on the NeXT (for more up-to-date language reference documents, contact Stepstone, the manufacturers of Objective-C). If you can't afford the time to wait for the new edition, I recommend you buy the current edition anyway, since the background and basic Objective-C programming skills it teaches will be enough to get you started even with the newer version of Objective-C. Be seeing you... ++Lang -- langz@prodigal.sun.com 415/594-9268 "Karma means `getting caught'; the secret to not creating karma is getting even without getting caught." --RK, R3
cox@stpstn.UUCP (Brad Cox) (01/03/91)
In article <5103@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM> langz@prodigal.Eng.Sun.COM (Lang Zerner) writes: >In article <1990Dec23.020007.22765@investor.pgh.pa.us> rbp@investor.pgh.pa.us (Bob Peirce #305) writes: >o Cox, Bradley, Object-Oriented Programming: an Evolutionary Approach (don't > know the publisher). Addison Wesley. An updated version is 'in production'. Don't know when it will appear in bookstores yet.1 -- Brad Cox; cox@stepstone.com; CI$ 71230,647; 203 426 1875 The Stepstone Corporation; 75 Glen Road; Sandy Hook CT 06482