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- From: edw@distant.uucp (Ed Watkeys)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer,comp.sys.mac.oop.misc
- Subject: David Betz and Bob Language
- Date: Sun, 3 Jan 93 12:28:01 EST
- Organization: Distant Software
- Message-ID: <01050133.mp32gx@distant.uucp>
- Reply-To: edw@distant.uucp
- X-Mailer: uAccess - Macintosh Release: 1.6v2
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- I've started looking into porting Bob to the Macintosh under THINK C 5.0,
- and while attempting to compile it, I came across some strange things...
-
- Bob is an OO language like C with C++ classes and without explicit typing.
- It was presented in the September '91 _Dr. Dobb's Journal_, and is
- implemented as a compiler with a p-code system basically.
-
- It's written in K&R C, and does wierd things with function arguments. For
- instance, it'll define a function like this:
-
- do_expr()
- {
- ...
- }
-
- and then call it with arguments! You don't do things like this in ANSI C,
- and that's what I know.
-
- Anyway, I was wondering if anyone:
-
- 1. Has ported Bob to the Macintosh.
- 2. Knows of an Internet-reachable email address for David Betz.
- 3. Knows what the hell is happening with the stuff I described above.
-
- My goal is to introduce Bob to the Apple event object model and create (or
- at least start) an application framework which is designed from the ground
- up to be scriptable -- and free.
-
- Ed
-
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