Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!att!dptg!rutgers!sun-barr!decwrl!shelby!portia!hanauma!rick From: rick@hanauma (Richard Ottolini) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: Re: C++ versus Objective C Message-ID: <4365@portia.Stanford.EDU> Date: 9 Aug 89 23:15:54 GMT Sender: USENET News SystemReply-To: rick@hanauma (Richard Ottolini) Organization: Stanford University, Dept. of Geophysics Lines: 8 C++ has much of the flavor of the original UNIX phenomenom-- it is interesting, the source code is almost free to university hackers ($250). Even if you don't intend to hack the source code, it leaves you a feeling of CONTROL-- you can read it fix bugs, make inmprovements, port it to next year's new hardware. And like UNIX you can gripe that on a one-to-one feature basis, some other language (e.g. Objective-C) might be better, but the sum of features is not.