wdr@wang.UUCP (William Ricker) (01/16/90)
cdwilli@kochab.cs.umbc.edu (Chris Willianson (Guest of Al)) writes: >I found a book by Brad Cox (if memory servers me, he invented >Objective C) TRUE. He's the principal of Stepstone corp, producers of Objective-C and partners with NeXT in NextStep interaface builder etc. >to be helpful in figuring out the hoopla over >object-oriented programming. The name of the book is (what else?) >"Object-oriented Programming," published by Addison-Wesley, 1986. >Cox includes descriptions of several object-oriented languages >(Smalltalk, Objective C, et. al.); he also describes the results of >his comparison ... , including figures and... And with much less bias than you'd expect for someone with a product! As a note, the version of Objective-C documented in the second part of the book is *not* the current NeXT, SUN, OS/2 version (rel 4.0) but the previous version (3.3) which was available on SUN and MS/DOS. Those of you who set the book down after noticing configuration management problems inthe object name-space in ObjC33 can come back, the problem was fixed the the NeXT release, which I have on my OS/2 box here. Bill Ricker