From: "Mauricio Fernández" <batsman.geo@...>
Date: 2002-10-01T04:04:01+09:00
Subject: Re: thoughts on typelessness

On Mon, Sep 30, 2002 at 11:16:46PM +0900, William Djaja Tjokroaminata wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Based on my first impression of scanning the comp.lang.objective-c, it
> seems that:
> 
> 1) objective-c does not have a default gc (C# does!)
> 2) objective-c is kind-of Apple oriented (?)
 AFAIK Objective-C is used to develop on OSX, but saying it is
Apple-oriented is like saying C++ is Windows-oriented ;) You can for
instance use gobjc, which will run on platforms supported by the gcc
compiler, as it uses the gcc backend to generate optimized code.

> So I skip objective-c for now.

I wouldn't throw it away that fast...
Not that I know anything about Objc, but I have often heard good
things about it.

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