Re: [PLUG] Pascal?

[Leonard Rosenthol <leonardr@lazerware.com>]

At 12:42 PM -0400 7/4/02, gabriel rosenkoetter wrote:
> Ummm... way to weird for whom, Len? For you? It certainly seems
> perfectly sane, what I've used of it under NeXTStep.

	For most C/C++ programmers...


> As for use in Mac OS X, I'd love to know that was true, but I
> somehow doubt it. Objective C just isn't taken seriously.

	See my previous message - but yes, Objective C IS THE 
language for development of native applications for Mac OS X using 
the "Cocoa" framework - which is basically an updated NeXTStep class 
library.  It even has all the same names (NSString, etc.).


> I want some of what those C people were smoking, because it must be
> pretty potent stuff. This is clearly the compiler's job, not the
> programmer's.

	Agreed, however in the old days compilers weren't as smart as 
they are today...


> If your compiler's too dumb to do that, go fix it.

	May not be possible if you
a) don't have the source
b) don't have the specs for the output files (.obj, .o, .a, whatever)
c) etc.


LDR
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