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Re: [using gcc book] ch1 objective-c blurb
- From: Chris Devers <cdevers at pobox dot com>
- To: Matt Austern <austern at apple dot com>
- Cc: GCC list <gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org>
- Date: Mon, 1 Sep 2003 17:23:56 -0400 (EDT)
- Subject: Re: [using gcc book] ch1 objective-c blurb
- References: <FD331A4E-D778-11D7-A831-000393B2ABA2@apple.com><Pine.OSX.4.56.0308260002370.12109@macdaddy.local><9C9887F6-D7E5-11D7-9462-00039390D9E0@apple.com>
- Reply-to: Chris Devers <cdevers at pobox dot com>
On Tue, 26 Aug 2003, Matt Austern wrote:
> On Monday, August 25, 2003, at 9:04 PM, Chris Devers wrote:
>
> > Great, you agree, but what then *would* be an interesting assertion?
>
> [....] Roughly: Objective C is an object-oriented extension to C that
> makes it possible to combine C with Smalltalk-style designs. [....]
Thank you for this suggestion, but in the end I think the more language
neutral rewrite of the entire chapter has eliminated the need for any kind
of language summary, whether for ObjC or any other.
In hindsight, a terse [one page] introductory chapter was probably never
the right place to start getting bogged down in such details.
Thanks for all the suggestions though :)
<aside>
> Most users have no reason to care about low-level implementation
> details like the compiler's intermediate representation.
True, but I think this book is specifically for the people that *would*
care, and not people learning to program well in any particular language.
</aside>
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