On Tue, Dec 30, 2003 at 11:37:32AM -0500, Jing Su wrote:

Many people swear by ObjectiveC, calling it "object oriented C done right". I know the syntax, but haven't used it enough to be familiar with it's ups and downs. But if you're looking into learning an object oriented style language with a C background, ObjC might be the thing to look into.

And before one dismisses ObjC because one has never heard of it, do realise that NeXT was built on it, as is OSX. And yes, GCC 3 compiles ObjC code (generally .m and .h files). This sample chapter from O'Reilly is a good (generic, non Apple- specific despite the book itself) introduction to ObjC: http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/learncocoa2/chapter/index.html -- taa We know today that the brain we are born with is not the finished product it was once thought to be. The structuring of the brain depends very much on experiences gone through in the first hours, days, and weeks of a person's life. --Alice Miller, Ph.D. /*eof*/ -- The Toronto Linux Users Group. Meetings: http://tlug.ss.org TLUG requests: Linux topics, No HTML, wrap text below 80 columns How to UNSUBSCRIBE: http://tlug.ss.org/subscribe.shtml