From: Chad Perrin <perrin@...>
Date: 2007-07-16T00:58:59+09:00
Subject: Re: I need serious help!

On Sun, Jul 15, 2007 at 04:03:17PM +0900, John Joyce wrote:
> 
> On Jul 15, 2007, at 1:27 AM, Chad Perrin wrote:
> 
> >On Sun, Jul 15, 2007 at 02:08:42PM +0900, John Joyce wrote:
> >>
> >>Objective C does have some similarity to Ruby, but that's because
> >>both inherited similar object ideas from SmallTalk.
> >>But Obj-C is still a strict superset of C. There is also Obj-C++
> >>which is not as clearly a superset of C++ (some C++ doesn't work in
> >>Obj-C++)
> >
> >I hadn't heard of Objective C++.  That sounds like a bad joke.
> >
> >
> More a poorly documented and perhaps wisely neglected creature.
> Not many people know much about it.
> AFAIK it allows you to wrap C++ in Obj-C much the way C can easily be  
> wrapped in Obj-C, but the obvious limitations are if you get too much  
> C++ stuff happening, things could go crazy.
> Even apple quietly uses C++ for some things like device drivers.

Device drivers written in C++ sound like a bad joke, too.  Why sacrifice
stability and speed for, uh, nothing?  I don't think I've ever heard of a
device driver that needed to be so big that the OOP characteristics of
C++ actually provided any benefit.

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